Re: [PATCH] modify console_loglevel from commandline

Robert Minichino (rmini@joni.pasture.net)
Wed, 9 Dec 1998 20:42:15 -0500 (EST)

> > 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).

I personally do not mind the copyright messages. The normal 'scary'
messages that can be interpreted as abnormal by a inexperienced (new)
user, on the other hand, I do wish to be able to eliminate.

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

I believe it depends upon licensing, although I'm not totally clear on it
and definately do not want to step on anyone's toes. Strangely enough,
as a side-effect of using printk() for all output, we log the copyright
messages unless your syslogd is setup to do otherwise. See my previous
message "Kernel messages..." for ideas I had regarding this and other
output presentation issues.

--
Robert Minichino
Chief Engineer
Denarius Enterprises, Inc.
http://www.denarius.com/




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