From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754648AbYI0TSn (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:18:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753531AbYI0TSg (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:18:36 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:49104 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753043AbYI0TSg (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:18:36 -0400 Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:18:24 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: dcg Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: be less annoying on boot Message-ID: <20080927191824.GC18619@elte.hu> References: <20080924183517.GA24209@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> <20080925091558.GE16734@elte.hu> <20080925161300.GA17162@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> <20080927185027.GB17867@elte.hu> <20080927211131.2e0b60f0@diego-desktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20080927211131.2e0b60f0@diego-desktop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0007] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * dcg wrote: > El Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:50:27 +0200, Ingo Molnar escribió: > > > that has some marginal use: it shows that we are past the really > > basic system setup code, we decompressed the kernel and entered > > protected mode with boot paging enabled. > > What I find annoying about that printk is that I see it even with the > "quiet" boot flag. that's a property of early_printk() - it just doesnt listen to any of the normal printk modifiers. (and that's the point of early_printk()) could you please send a patch that only calls that early_printk() if console_loglevel == 10? (i.e. if "debug" has been passed) Ingo