Re: [patch] Generic way to control display of debug printk's

H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-22T02:04:09Z

Followup to: <20030321223717.GA1241@bork.org>
By author: Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> It seems to me that a generic way to dynamically control the printing
> of certain messages to the console during kernel boot is required.
> Systems that really need this are large SMP systems or NUMA machines
> with a large number of nodes. The number of messages that appear
> per-node or per-cpu is huge in these machines.
>

See KERN_EMERG, KERN_ALERT, KERN_CRIT, KERN_ERR, KERN_WARNING,
KERN_NOTICE, KERN_INFO, KERN_DEBUG.

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