Re: [PATCH 0/6] loglevel=pci:8,acpi:8,apic=8 support v6

H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-18T15:37:28Z

Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> which is what we really want. If a bootup fails, the user has to repeat
> the bootup at least once with a verbosity level increased and with
> (hopefully) some sort of log capture facility attached.
>
> So the point would be, if the user specified loglevel=all, we would get
> really comprehensive, one-stop-shop output.
>

That is true if the bootup fails, but it's fairly common that we get the
machine up (at least to the point when we can dmesg), but the user wants
to report a problem. For that case, it's very nice if the dmesg log
contains as much information as possible.

So I don't think it's clear that pre-filtering is what we want, at all.

-hpa