Re: [PATCH] clean up kernel messages

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Apr 01 2005 - 16:31:35 EST


On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 12:46 -0800, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:26:41PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > This patch tidies up those annoying kernel messages. A typical kernel
> > > boot now looks like this:
> > >
> > > Loading Linux... Uncompressing kernel...
> > > #
> > >
> > > See? Much nicer. This patch saves about 375k on my laptop config and
> > > nearly 100k on minimal configs.
> > >
> >
> > heh. Please take a look at
> > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0004.2/0709.html, see if
> > Graham did anything which you missed.
>
> He's got a bunch of stuff that's not strictly related in there and
> stuff I've already dealt with (vprintk and the like) and stuff that's
> still forthcoming (panic tweaks, etc.). I also leave in all the APIs
> like dmesg, they just no longer do anything.

Looking at your other patches, I'm assuming that this is just another
April 1st type of patch. Is it?

-- Steve


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