From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261422AbUEVOlE (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 May 2004 10:41:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261425AbUEVOlE (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 May 2004 10:41:04 -0400 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:7557 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261422AbUEVOk7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 May 2004 10:40:59 -0400 Message-ID: <40AF66FA.7090305@tmr.com> Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 10:43:06 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Zwane Mwaikambo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.6-mm] Make i386 boot not so chatty References: <20040520234006.291c3dfa.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040520234006.291c3dfa.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > >>This patch silences the default i386 boot by putting a lot of development >> related printks under KERN_DEBUG loglevel, allowing the normal chatty mode >> to be turned on by using the 'debug' kernel parameter. > > > I think I like it chatty. Turning this stuff off by default makes kernel > developers' lives that little bit harder. > > Is the `quiet' option not suitable? That may be too much of a good thing, but perhaps we can go to quiet=N or bootmsglvl=N or some such to let people tune the output. I personally like having the verbose output, but my systems tend to be stable enough that I don't see it often other than benchmarking, etc. While throwing out ideas, bootmsgmask=#dddd would let people control various parts of the output individually. That may be overkill, but it is flexible overkill. And the default could be what we have now, with the option of even more babble for debugging. Developers might find that highly useful if they had a way to let users selectively enable more info at boot time. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me