Re: Boot messages (Was: Re: Ideas for v2.1)

Bryn Paul Arnold Jones (bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 13 Jun 1996 02:39:41 +0100 (BST)

On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Brad Pepers wrote:
[...]
> Maybe if there was a way to
> seperate messages into those that must appear at the start (hardware
> failures and copyright messages) vrs all the extra info spewed by the
> various drivers as they start up.
>
> It really comes down to whether anyone thinks its a good idea for non-
> technical people to be able to run Linux.
>

Hmm, change the normal/debug stuff to level KERN_{INFO,DEBUG), and don't
spew it out to the screen (to the logs tho ;), and copyright messages to
KERN_NOTICE, everything else (errors and such) to
KERN_{WARNING,ERR,CRIT,EMERG}, not really a big change, just info, and
debug level stuff dosn't get to the screen.
Bryn

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