Re: [PATCH] add "notime" boot option

[Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>]

On 05/23/2007 10:55 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:

>>>> That's a good source of confusion.  To me, "notime" means something
>>>>  like "don't bother calculating time", instead of the proposed 
>>>> behavior.  Can't it be something like 'nologts' (no log timestamps)
>>>>  or nots or notimestamps or nologtime instead
>>> 
>>> "nologtime" is OK with me.  or does it confuse people in a different
>>> way?  Anyone else?
>> 
>> The CONFIG option is called CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME. How about "noprintktime"? At 
>> least nicely to the point...
> 
> Actually I'm concerned about total kernel command line length,
> so using option names that are "long" when short will do is not good IMO.
> 
> I.e., I can easily overflow a 255-byte command line length buffer,
> so Shorter is Better.

Okay. I would by the way not be against turning the timestamping off by 
default and turning it _on_ with a "timestamps" or "logtime" or whatever 
option. The information is sometimes handy for seeing the (clustering of) 
event times so I've been compiling it in for a while on some boxes but in 
the majority case for me it's noise taking up printk real estate...

Rene.