Re: [PATCH] clean up kernel messages

From: Richard B. Johnson
Date: Fri Apr 01 2005 - 17:21:40 EST


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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