Re: [PATCH] printk: add Kconfig for default console loglevel

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 09:37 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:33:51 -0400 Dave Reisner wrote:
> > Keep the historical default of 7, but allow distributions and users to
> > tune this value instead of requiring a kernel cmdline parameter.
> Please explain how this is different from what is already in lib/Kconfig.debug:
> config DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL
> 	int "Default message log level (1-7)"
> 	range 1 7
> 	default "4"
> 	help
> 	  Default log level for printk statements with no specified priority.

DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL sets a KERN_<level> for
printks without a KERN_<level>.

> > +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.
> > +

This allows 'unimportant' messages to not be shown by default.

I think there are lots of KERN_INFO messages that are
miscategorized.  This change might cause some shifting
of KERN_<level>s in the future, so it's OK by me.