Re: [PATCH][2.6-mm] Make i386 boot not so chatty

Bill Davidsen
2004-05-22T14:41:04Z

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
>>This patch silences the default i386 boot by putting a lot of development
>> related printks under KERN_DEBUG loglevel, allowing the normal chatty mode
>> to be turned on by using the 'debug' kernel parameter.
>
>
> I think I like it chatty. Turning this stuff off by default makes kernel
> developers' lives that little bit harder.
>
> Is the `quiet' option not suitable?

That may be too much of a good thing, but perhaps we can go to quiet=N
or bootmsglvl=N or some such to let people tune the output. I personally
like having the verbose output, but my systems tend to be stable enough
that I don't see it often other than benchmarking, etc.

While throwing out ideas, bootmsgmask=#dddd would let people control
various parts of the output individually. That may be overkill, but it
is flexible overkill. And the default could be what we have now, with
the option of even more babble for debugging. Developers might find that
highly useful if they had a way to let users selectively enable more
info at boot time.

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