Re: [PATCH] x86_64: be less annoying on boot

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> wrote:

> As long as we're printing mostly useless messages on every boot regardless
> of debug level, make them 5% more amusing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
> 
> (Alternatively, just remove them, of course...)

LOL :) Applied the commit below to tip/x86/debug, thanks Bill!

	Ingo

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>From f6476774f1fe32593d3d71903b1e98514efbf685 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:35:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] x86_64: be less annoying on boot

Remove mostly useless message on every boot.

Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c |    2 --
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
index 9bfc4d7..11aa501 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
@@ -112,8 +112,6 @@ void __init x86_64_start_kernel(char * real_mode_data)
 
 	x86_64_init_pda();
 
-	early_printk("Kernel really alive\n");
-
 	x86_64_start_reservations(real_mode_data);
 }