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From: David Ford <david@linux.com>
To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)@pop.zip.com.au
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/REQ] Increase kmsg buffer from 16K to 32K, kernel/printk.c
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:12:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A789BE0.2727B585@linux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1010131181206.16241A-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>

"Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > Does Linus or anyone object to raising the ksmg buffer from 16K to 32K?
> > > 4/5 systems I have now overflow the buffer during boot before init is
> > > even launched.
> >
> > Thats just an indication that 2.4.x is currently printking too much crap on
> > boot
>
>  We could probably get rid of much of the crap for i386 by #undef
> APIC_DEBUG in include/asm-i386/apic.h.  Too bad broken SMP systems get
> reported every now and then and the crap proves useful in getting what
> actually is wrong.

The largest bodies of text come from scsi, irda, usb, and udf.

The LP/parport could stand being trimmed too.

The fatfs barfs out bogus cluster size messages when I don't have any FAT type
filesystems.

Question is, If I submit patches to tidy up the boot messages, when will(can)
they be applied?  2.4 or 2.5?

-d

--
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  The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. Andrew S. Tanenbaum



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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-31 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-27  8:01 [PATCH/REQ] Increase kmsg buffer from 16K to 32K, kernel/printk.c David Ford
2001-01-31 17:06 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-31 17:19   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-31 23:12     ` David Ford [this message]
2001-01-31 17:21   ` Gabor Lenart
2001-01-31 20:46     ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-31 20:58       ` Mark Hahn
2001-02-03 19:41     ` Paul Gortmaker
     [not found] <cs.lists.linux-kernel/3A72804A.E6052E1B@linux.com>
2001-01-27 10:14 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-01-27 11:45   ` David Ford
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-02-01  1:26 Chris Adams

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