Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 5 May 1996 10:40:15 -0700 | From | "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <> | Subject | Re: On the topic of noisy drivers... |
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From: jhenders@bogon.com Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 17:15:09 -0700 (PDT)
In <199605021801.OAA10164@po_box.cig.mot.com> David A Willmore <willmore@cig.mot.com> writes:
>I like this idea. Two lines/drive total and two more for a host adapter >would be fine. I'll look into this.
As I assume this will also affect the info returned by dmesg, please make sure a verbose flag can be set in lilo or passed to the kernel, as I for one prefer the current verbose output, especially when looking for problems with dmesg.
If we're going to consider decreasing the bootup verbosity, this should be a kernel configuration option. There have been many times I've gone back to look at old system logs to see if/when something started looking different, which would not have been possible if the more verbose information were only logged when specifically requested.
I suggest that some kind of consensus should be reached before any such changes are made. This is not a bug to be fixed, but an aesthetic decision about which reasonable people may disagree. I for one think useful verbosity is a good thing. It costs very little in practice.
Leonard
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