Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch.

David Lang
2001-06-29T18:39:25Z

back when I was doing PC repair (1.x kernel days) I started useing linux
becouse the boot messages gave me so much info about the system (I started
to keep a Slackware boot/root disk set on hand so when faced with a
customer machine I could boot and see what hardware was actually
installed)

make a boot option to turn on the verbose mode if you want, but don't
eliminate it completely.

David Lang

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Holger Lubitz wrote:

> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:43:25 +0200
> From: Holger Lubitz <h.lubitz@internet-factory.de>
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Newsgroups: lists.linux.kernel
> Subject: Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch.
>
> Miquel van Smoorenburg proclaimed:
> > You know what I hate? Debugging stuff like BIOS-e820, zone messages,
> > dentry|buffer|page-cache hash table entries, CPU: Before vendor init,
> > CPU: After vendor init, etc etc, PCI: Probing PCI hardware,
> > ip_conntrack (256 buckets, 2048 max), the complete APIC tables, etc
>
> Well, I _like_ the fact that my machine tells me all that when booting
> (ok, maybe the APIC tables are a little bit much). Believe it or not -
> the detailed boot messages were one of the reasons I chose Linux over
> BSD back in 1993 when I started. I think it gives a valuable feeling for
> what the OS is up to - even to the unexperienced.
>
> A boot parameter for the verbosity would be ok, though. But I'd still
> vote for the default to be pretty verbose. Leave it to the distributors
> to disable it, if they want.
>
> After all - how often does the average linux machine boot? Once a day at
> most. Mine usually run until the next kernel upgrade. But then again,
> I'm not a kernel hacker, so this is to be taken more as a users point of
> view.
>
> Holger
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