Re: [PATCH][2.6-mm] Make i386 boot not so chatty

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

On Sat, 22 May 2004 08:01:53 -0400 Ed Tomlinson wrote:

| On May 21, 2004 02:40 am, Andrew Morton wrote:
| > 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?
| 
| I have been using linux for years with an a few dips into development.  I second
| Andrew's idea.  I like the idea of a quiet parm _much_ more than a default quiet mode.

which is already there, of course.  and it works well -- i use it
often.  however, i've seen at least one distro override it with a
sysctl during init-scripts.  bah.  :(

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~Randy