From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755293AbXEYXn5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 19:43:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752065AbXEYXnv (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 19:43:51 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:60629 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752136AbXEYXnu (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 19:43:50 -0400 Message-ID: <465774AD.8020408@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 16:43:41 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jesse Barnes CC: Ben Collins , Andi Kleen , Ben Collins , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] i386/x86_64: Allow disabling the putstr's from compressed boot wrapper References: <98cd38b5.git.bcollins@ubuntu.com> <200705251623.55551.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> <46577112.7090106@zytor.com> <200705251638.37489.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> In-Reply-To: <200705251638.37489.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jesse Barnes wrote: > > Right, but you're special that way. And moreover, you would know how to add > such debug statements as needed. But is this output something we really need > enabled unconditionally for everyone? > *I* can do that, yes, but I usually don't have access to the platform in question. As such I really don't want to see this as a compilation option. Make it a runtime option[*] so the user with the problematic machine. > I personally don't care that much, aside from the feeling that we have way too > many printks in general... [*] FWIW, my setup rewrite has a proper command-line parser in it, so we can use the command line from the start.