> But I'd *REALLY* love to have the possibility to easily remove (or at=
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> least lessen) the amount of messages at bootup.
I have already posted a patch to that effect.=20
> The point is, why not make it a compile time option ? It's no kernel=20
> bloat, because with it, there's less code in the kernel... :-)
The aforementioned patch makes it a boot-time option (it creates
a new kernel command-line option which allows setting of the default
console log-level. Set it to 1 and you get no more boot messages.)
You can retrieve the patch from
<URL:http//Web.FdN.FR/~tquinot/linux-default-loglevel.html>
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