Re: [PATCH] printk: Make CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET configurable

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (06/20/18 13:03), Petr Mladek wrote:
> > This commit makes CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET configurable.
> > 
> > This for example will allow distros which want quiet to really mean quiet
> > to set CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET so that only messages with a higher severity
> > then KERN_ERR (CRIT, ALERT, EMERG) get printed, avoiding an endless game
> > of whack-a-mole silencing harmless error messages.
> 
> I find it a bit confusing that "quiet" would mean something different
> on different systems.

Good that you brought this up. I had similar feelings but then the
patch looked rather simple and I kinda agreed with it. If we can come
up with alternative solution (you mentioned some) then it would be
great.

	-ss