Re: [PATCH] i386 reduce spurious interrupt noise

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> > These are just as harmless as single-bit RAM errors with ECC
> > working.
> 
> Hence KERN_DEBUG

 Both are serious hardware failures.  KERN_DEBUG is for stuff that's 
normally out of interest for most system operators.

> > For the former you only really want to rate-limit the report -- some
> > people apparently want or need to run broken hardware and they'd
> > probably appreciate limiting the output.
> 
> A little more than rate-limit as I mentioned.  I don't want the
> occasional surious APIC message waking up consoles that are asleep.
> This was the reason for the change.

 If that's the sole reason, then how about setting console_loglevel
appropriately for the systems you want the console to remain asleep?  
It's there exactly for a purpose like this.  You can eliminate other
messages you consider unimportant this way, too, without tweaking the log
level of all of them.

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