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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: davej@redhat.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: don't bother users with unimportant messages.
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:17:04 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060218.171704.89115583.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060219010910.GA18841@redhat.com>

From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 20:09:10 -0500

> When users see these printed to the console, they think
> something is wrong.  As it's just informational and something
> that only developers care about, lower the printk level.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

I'm partly against such changes, especially lately...

I've been burned so many times over the past few days by things like
installers, klogd, and whatever else changing the loglevel on me so
that the one console message I needed to see right before the machine
hung doesn't get printed out.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-19  1:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-19  1:09 Dave Jones
2006-02-19  1:17 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2006-02-19  8:15 ` Russell King
2006-02-19  8:29   ` Dave Jones
2006-02-19  9:31     ` Russell King
2006-02-19  9:47       ` Dave Jones
2006-02-19 17:57     ` Greg KH
2006-02-19 18:37       ` Dave Jones
2006-02-19 22:41         ` Greg KH
2006-02-19 20:36       ` Gene Heskett
2006-02-19 20:34     ` Gene Heskett

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