Re: [PATCH] clean up kernel messages

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 16:18 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Arg! I'm too tired.  I took another look at your other patches and they
> look more legit now. On first glance, I thought you were just bluntly
> removing BUGs and error messages to quiet things down. But after taking
> another look, I see that they are more than that.  I wouldn't of thought
> about that on any other day.
>
> Sorry,
>
>
> -- Steve

Methinks he still is kidding. We have "quiet" as a parameter now
to quiet things down on a boot. Now if he would just get rid
of the annoying...
> > > > >  Loading Linux... Uncompressing kernel...
He'd have something.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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