Re: Shorten efi regions output

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 01/05/15 15:03, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec, at 11:46:28AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:17:41AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
>>> I have same feeling with you, it is too long for most of people.
>>>
>>> Since the printk code are for EFI_DEBUG, they are around the #ifdef
>>> so I would like to see a kernel param like efi_debug=on, so only
>>> efi_debug is specified then these verbose messages are printed.
>>> Without the param kernel can print some basic infomation about the
>>> memory ranges.
>>>
>>> In arm64 code there's already a uefi_debug param it can be moved to
>>> general code so that there will be a goable switch.
>>
>> Hmm, makes sense to me. Maybe we should really hide those behind a
>> debug switch, the question is whether asking the user to boot with
>> "efi_debug=on" in order to see the regions is ok. And I think it is ok
>> because we do that when debugging other stuff so I don't see anything
>> different here.
>>
>> And then when they're disabled by default, we don't really need to
>> shorten them as they're pure debug output then.
>>
>> Matt?
> 
> I'm fine with disabling the EFI memory output regions by default.
> 
> Printing the regions is still useful for debugging, but like you
> mention, we frequently ask users to enable other debug options when
> tracking down issues.
> 
> Laszlo, would you be OK with that?

Sure.

Thanks
Laszlo