From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261888AbVFLGvM (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Jun 2005 02:51:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261889AbVFLGvM (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Jun 2005 02:51:12 -0400 Received: from web30704.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.200.137]:3688 "HELO web30704.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261888AbVFLGu5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Jun 2005 02:50:57 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=t2b8EWhwHDLbRUM3NIX211syt+qUHoer9TsWqRUIiodi/eLV/dFmDXw9q1J3jUKyBOGR+8IP+fqj4RWC+GlKXOa9PNnIeEF/7GPbnuuvB+F7BN6wgZmVeyQwkjWG+e+pwui7bkhz35KDx/42TKjeN97JBZQPuxug9wxGcem8A2s= ; Message-ID: <20050612065050.99998.qmail@web30704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 23:50:50 -0700 (PDT) From: subbie subbie Subject: optional delay after partition detection at boot time To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I'm sure some of you have come across this annoying issue, the kernel messages scroll way too fast for a human to be able to read them (let alone vgrep them). I'm proposing two features; 1. a configurable (boot time, via kernel command line) delay between each and every print -- kind of overkill, but may be useful sometimes. 2. a configurable (boot time, via kernel command line) delay after partition detection, so that a humble system administrator would be able to actually find out which partition he should specify at boot time in order to boot his system. This is especially annoying on newer SATA systems where sometimes disks are detected as SCSI and sometimes as standard ATA (depending on BIOS settings), I'm sure though that it could be useful in a number of other cases. Let the flames begin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com