Re: [PATCH] modify console_loglevel from commandline

Chris Wedgwood (cw@ix.net.nz)
Thu, 10 Dec 1998 14:35:11 +1300


On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 02:59:03PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> There is one thing I think you need to do to go with that however.
> That is to make sure all the copyright banners printed by drivers
> are still printed in "quiet" mode. If you check that too then it
> seems reasonable to add 'quiet'

Doing this means there is little point having a quiet mode -- because
the copyright cruft is a good part of the message on some systems
(unless you have lots of SCSI drives).

Are we legally required to keep the copyright messages on boot? I
thought this would be considered a `restriction' ?

-cw

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