From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 08:00:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 08:00:30 -0400 Received: from mercury.Sun.COM ([192.9.25.1]:61163 "EHLO mercury.Sun.COM") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 08:00:17 -0400 Message-ID: <3B3C6DCB.5711888E@Sun.COM> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:00:11 +0100 From: Craig McLean Reply-To: Craig.McLean@Sun.COM Organization: Sun Microsystems X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76C-CCK-MCD Netscape [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hacksaw@hacksaw.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch. In-Reply-To: <200106290322.EAA04600@mauve.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hacksaw opined: > Given that seeing as much as possible on a potentially > small screen would be good, maybe tighter would be > nice. In example: > > kswapd: v1.8 > pty Devices: 256 Unix98 ptys configured > serial: v5.05b (2001-05-03) with > Options: MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI > Devices: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A > rtclock: v1.10d > ide: v6.31 Perhaps a boot time option such as: lilo boot: newkernel debug=xxxxxxx Where each 'x' is an option given to each driver and modules as they're loaded, say 'v' for 'show version', 'o' for 'show options', 'd' for 'show devices managed' and so on. You could even have a 'p' for 'give mad props' if you wanted :-). No 'debug=' could then simply cause the kernel to kprint any info from drivers/modules that failed to load, else keep schtum. Just my £0.02. Craig. -- Craig McLean P: 01276 423905 Proactive Technical Analyst M: 07801 459497 Sun Microsystems Proactive Services E: craig.mclean@sun.com