From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:53:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:53:16 -0400 Received: from panic.ohr.gatech.edu ([130.207.47.194]:28803 "HELO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:53:04 -0400 Message-ID: <3B3B7D34.FFA71114@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:53:40 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.6-pre5 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Miquel van Smoorenburg Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch. In-Reply-To: <20010628131641.5e10ecca.reynolds@redhat.com> <9hfter$9e7$1@ncc1701.cistron.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > In article <20010628131641.5e10ecca.reynolds@redhat.com>, > Tommy Reynolds wrote: > >Linus Torvalds was pleased to say: > > > >> If they are shut off, then where's the drumming? Because if people start > >> making copyright printk's normal, I will make "quiet" the default. > > > >Amen. This is like editing a program to remove the "harmless" compiler warning > >messages. If I don't get a useless message, I don't have to decide to ignore > >it. Describing what's happening is OK; don't gush. > > Yep - a driver should print out that it loaded and what hardware it > found. Nothing else. > > You know what I hate? Debugging stuff like BIOS-e820, zone messages, > dentry|buffer|page-cache hash table entries, CPU: Before vendor init, > CPU: After vendor init, etc etc, PCI: Probing PCI hardware, > ip_conntrack (256 buckets, 2048 max), the complete APIC tables, etc > > That's stuff that noone cares about. If the system fails to boot > boot it with a debug flag. If it does boot, _fine_. Actually this [IMHO] a bug that should be fixed in 2.4: The default logging level for the production 2.4 kernel includes KERN_DEBUG, which is why you see a lot of this crap. > arch/i386/kernel/setup.c: printk(KERN_DEBUG "CPU: Common caps: %08x %08x %08x %08x\n", -- Jeff Garzik | Andre the Giant has a posse. Building 1024 | MandrakeSoft |