Re: cutting down on boot messages

From: Krzysztof Halasa (khc@pm.waw.pl)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 16:09:50 EST


Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> writes:

> You'd do better to have a boot time command line option to limit printk
> messages to err, or above. Most of the printk messages have been given a
> severity already, so this shouldn't be a problem, and it will probably
> uncover some errors in the severity of certain messages.

Right.
In fact I'd rather leave the console printing KERN_INFO and make sure
the (debug) messages are really KERN_DEBUG. This way we wouldn't have
much noise with normal boot, but we could see KERN_DEBUG when something
goes wrong (and the kernel is being told to print everything).

-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
Network Administrator
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Jul 31 2003 - 22:00:28 EST