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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [patch] quite down SMP boot messages
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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
Date: 12 Dec 2003 03:46:41 -0500
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>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:

Christoph> On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:30:52AM -0500, Jes Sorensen
Christoph> wrote:
>> Once you hit > 2 CPUs the amount of noise printed per CPU starts
>> becoming a pain, at 64 CPUs it's turning into a royal pain ....
>> 
>> Oh and I also killed a NULL initializer in kernel/cpu.c - bad Rusty
>> ;-)

Christoph> Just kill the silly option, these messages are completly
Christoph> useless.  And IIRC we didn't have them in 2.4 either..

Some of them I agree could just be killed while others still have some
use. Thats why I suggest leaving in the boot option.

Jes