Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Only print "Decompressing Linux" etc when 'debug'is passed.

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Mon May 26 2008 - 12:17:31 EST



On Monday 2008-05-26 17:09, Johannes Weiner wrote:
>>
>> In fact, quite the opposite, http://tinyurl.com/68notu , is
>> worthwhile.
>
>I want dots! My bootloader already prints dots!
>
>Decompressing Linux...................done.
>Booting the kernel.

I have deliberately chosen stars instead of dots because the rest of
the kernel already uses dots here and there without actually
implementing a progress "bar" ("Foobaring your CPU...",wait,"done\n") to
stand out a bit, but I do not actually mind what is printed, whether
it is stars, dots or âs.
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