From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262903AbVDAVyi (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2005 16:54:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262921AbVDAVwV (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2005 16:52:21 -0500 Received: from waste.org ([216.27.176.166]:52896 "EHLO waste.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262937AbVDAVcs (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2005 16:32:48 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 13:32:40 -0800 From: Matt Mackall To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Andrew Morton , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] clean up kernel messages Message-ID: <20050401213240.GK15453@waste.org> References: <20050401200851.GG15453@waste.org> <20050401122641.7c52eaab.akpm@osdl.org> <20050401204629.GJ15453@waste.org> <1112390323.578.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1112390323.578.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 04:18:42PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 12:46 -0800, Matt Mackall wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:26:41PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Matt Mackall wrote: > > > > > > > > This patch tidies up those annoying kernel messages. A typical kernel > > > > boot now looks like this: > > > > > > > > Loading Linux... Uncompressing kernel... > > > > # > > > > > > > > See? Much nicer. This patch saves about 375k on my laptop config and > > > > nearly 100k on minimal configs. > > > > > > > > > > heh. Please take a look at > > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0004.2/0709.html, see if > > > Graham did anything which you missed. > > > > He's got a bunch of stuff that's not strictly related in there and > > stuff I've already dealt with (vprintk and the like) and stuff that's > > still forthcoming (panic tweaks, etc.). I also leave in all the APIs > > like dmesg, they just no longer do anything. > > Looking at your other patches, I'm assuming that this is just another > April 1st type of patch. Is it? Both this and the previous one are in active use by various embedded systems folks and I hope to get them integrated into mainline. Comments welcome. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.