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From: Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.6-mm] Make i386 boot not so chatty
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 08:01:53 -0400
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On May 21, 2004 02:40 am, 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?

I have been using linux for years with an a few dips into development.  I second
Andrew's idea.  I like the idea of a quiet parm _much_ more than a default quiet mode.

Ed Tomlinson