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From: "Kristian Høgsberg" <krh@bitplanet.net>
To: devzero@web.de
Cc: krh@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Only print "Decompressing Linux" etc when 'noisy' is passed.
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 23:41:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080525034134.GA2392@bitplanet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <290568367@web.de>

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 09:28:21PM +0200, devzero@web.de wrote:
> what about using "quiet" here instead ?
> 
> quiet is already the parameter to suppress boot messages, so introducing another one doesn`t make sense, imho.

I agree, and I wasn't looking to introduce a new parameter, I meant to
reuse 'debug'.  That is already used for increasing the log level
(see init/main.c).  Also, as it is, the decompressor already prints
error messages if something goes wrong, so there's not much point in
printing the debug spew.  I think it makes sense to default to not
print it.

> the early boot commandline parser was extended some time ago to support boolean options, see:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=32d0b9898029b7b3c7f161d31f57c4831d9049eb
> 
> this may shrink your patch , see example in arch/x86/boot/edd.c 

Unfortunately, that doesn't help me.  This code is run before the kernel
is decompressed and the only functions available are the ones in misc.c.
And I know the strnstr approach isn't quite smart enough the handle quoted
parameters and similar, but I think it strikes a good balance.

I'll send an updated patch that looks for 'debug' instead of 'noisy'.

thanks,
Kristian


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-25  3:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-24 19:28 [PATCH 2/2] Only print "Decompressing Linux" etc when 'noisy' is passed devzero
2008-05-25  3:41 ` Kristian Høgsberg [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-23 21:59 [PATCH 1/2] Use structs instead of hardcoded offsets in x86 boot decompressor Kristian Høgsberg
2008-05-23 21:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] Only print "Decompressing Linux" etc when 'noisy' is passed Kristian Høgsberg
2008-05-23 22:42   ` Johannes Weiner
2008-05-24  9:25   ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-05-24 18:07     ` Diego Calleja

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