From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753430Ab1GZPef (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:34:35 -0400 Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:61533 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752716Ab1GZPea (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:34:30 -0400 From: Dave Reisner To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Reisner Subject: [PATCH] printk: add Kconfig for default console loglevel Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:33:51 -0400 Message-Id: <1311694431-17037-1-git-send-email-dreisner@archlinux.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Keep the historical default of 7, but allow distributions and users to tune this value instead of requiring a kernel cmdline parameter. Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner --- kernel/printk.c | 4 +++- lib/Kconfig.debug | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index 37dff34..fabc216 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -58,7 +58,9 @@ void asmlinkage __attribute__((weak)) early_printk(const char *fmt, ...) /* We show everything that is MORE important than this.. */ #define MINIMUM_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL 1 /* Minimum loglevel we let people use */ -#define DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL 7 /* anything MORE serious than KERN_DEBUG */ + +/* default to 7 -- anything MORE serious than KERN_DEBUG */ +#define DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL CONFIG_DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(log_wait); diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index c0cb9c4..6caa66e 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -21,6 +21,16 @@ config DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL that are auditing their logs closely may want to set it to a lower priority. +config DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL + int "Default console log level (1-7)" + range 1 7 + default "7" + help + Default console log level setting for printk statements. + + This was hard-coded to KERN_INFO (7) since at least 2.6.12. You may + wish to turn this down to 4 for a quieter console. + config ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED bool "Enable __deprecated logic" default y -- 1.7.6