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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: Make CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET configurable
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 15:34:30 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180620063430.GA749@jagdpanzerIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180619093102.5ad9164d@gandalf.local.home>

On (06/19/18 09:31), Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > The goal of passing the "quiet" option to the kernel is for the kernel
> > to be quiet unless something really is wrong.
> > 
> > Sofar passing quiet has been (mostly) equivalent to passing
> > loglevel=4 on the kernel commandline. Which means to show any messages
> > with a level of KERN_ERR or higher severity on the console.
> > 
> > In practice this often does not result in a quiet boot though, since
> > there are many false-positive or otherwise harmless error messages printed,
> > defeating the purpose of the quiet option. Esp. the ACPICA code is really
> > bad wrt this, but there are plenty of others too.
> > 
> > This commit makes CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET configurable.
> > 
> > This for example will allow distros which want quiet to really mean quiet
> > to set CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET so that only messages with a higher severity
> > then KERN_ERR (CRIT, ALERT, EMERG) get printed, avoiding an endless game
> > of whack-a-mole silencing harmless error messages.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Looks OK to me

Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>

	-ss

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-20  6:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-19 11:57 [PATCH] printk: Make CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET configurable Hans de Goede
2018-06-19 13:31 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-06-20  6:34   ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2018-06-20 11:03 ` Petr Mladek
2018-06-20 11:24   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-06-20 13:43     ` Hans de Goede
2018-06-21  1:43       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-06-20 13:37   ` Hans de Goede
2018-06-25 14:56     ` Petr Mladek
2018-06-20 14:07   ` Steven Rostedt
2018-06-20 14:18     ` Takashi Iwai

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