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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: Cleanup console loglevels
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 11:36:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53765ABB.50602@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140516175154.GA18834@pd.tnic>

On 05/16/2014 10:51 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 07:49:21PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> so I was staring at
>>
>> 12544697f12e ("x86_64: be less annoying on boot, v2")
>>
>> and how naked numbers mean sh*t and how I have to grep sources to find
>> out what this 10 thing means. So how about the following cleanup? We can
>> do it this way, we can do accessors and stuff, whatever. But the naked
>> numbers are plain misleading.
>>
>> So how about it? I'm asking whether it makes sense first before I go
>> and replace all tests of console_loglevel with naked numbers around the
>> tree.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> ---
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
>> index 068054f4bf20..0029d974e431 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
>> @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init x86_64_start_kernel(char * real_mode_data)
>>  	 */
>>  	load_ucode_bsp();
>>  
>> -	if (console_loglevel == 10)
>> +	if (console_loglevel >= CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET)
> 
> That's CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEBUG, of course.
> 
> See, misleading. :-P
> 

Absolutely.  I'll ack it with that change.

-- 
~Randy

      reply	other threads:[~2014-05-16 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-16 17:49 Cleanup console loglevels Borislav Petkov
2014-05-16 17:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-16 18:36   ` Randy Dunlap [this message]

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