From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Owens Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:53:01 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: console_loglevel is broken on ia64 Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:39:06 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: >Keith Owens wrote: >> kernel/printk.c has this abomination. >> int console_loglevel = DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL; >> int default_message_loglevel = DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL; >> int minimum_console_loglevel = MINIMUM_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL; >> int default_console_loglevel = DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL; >> Does anybody fancy a small project to clean up these variables? > >I would like to give it a try. Seems like a good little project for one >who is trying to learn his way around the kernel :) Good, I was hoping for somebody who wanted to get started on the kernel. It's all yours, unless somebody else does a patch first. Ensure that you find all references to these variables and make them all use the common #define, instead of random files declaring the variables themselves. Check all architectures as well.