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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.6-mm] Make i386 boot not so chatty
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Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> This patch silences the default i386 boot by putting a lot of development
>  related printks under KERN_DEBUG loglevel, allowing the normal chatty mode
>  to be turned on by using the 'debug' kernel parameter.

I think I like it chatty.  Turning this stuff off by default makes kernel
developers' lives that little bit harder.

Is the `quiet' option not suitable?