Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Jun 2001 10:58:41 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch. |
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On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 chuckw@altaserv.net wrote: > > > > Taking that one step further, isn't it a developer's right to "toot their > > > own horn" in their code? > > > > Right. In the code. Not in the Linux boot diagnostic information. > > Which is why I proposed earlier that we make it easy to shut them off. > Alan piped in with the "quiet" boot option.
If they are shut off, then where's the drumming? Because if people start making copyright printk's normal, I will make "quiet" the default.
Also, in printk's, you waste run-time memory, and you bloat up the need for the log size. Both of which are _technical_ reasons not to do it.
Small is beuatiful.
Linus
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