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SubjectRe: [PATCH] clean up kernel messages
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 16:18 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 12:46 -0800, Matt Mackall wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:26:41PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>> Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> This patch tidies up those annoying kernel messages. A typical kernel
>>>>> boot now looks like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> Loading Linux... Uncompressing kernel...
>>>>> #
>>>>>
>>>>> See? Much nicer. This patch saves about 375k on my laptop config and
>>>>> nearly 100k on minimal configs.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> heh. Please take a look at
>>>> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0004.2/0709.html, see if
>>>> Graham did anything which you missed.
>>>
>>> He's got a bunch of stuff that's not strictly related in there and
>>> stuff I've already dealt with (vprintk and the like) and stuff that's
>>> still forthcoming (panic tweaks, etc.). I also leave in all the APIs
>>> like dmesg, they just no longer do anything.
>>
>> Looking at your other patches, I'm assuming that this is just another
>> April 1st type of patch. Is it?
>
> Arg! I'm too tired. I took another look at your other patches and they
> look more legit now. On first glance, I thought you were just bluntly
> removing BUGs and error messages to quiet things down. But after taking
> another look, I see that they are more than that. I wouldn't of thought
> about that on any other day.
>
> Sorry,
>
>
> -- Steve

Methinks he still is kidding. We have "quiet" as a parameter now
to quiet things down on a boot. Now if he would just get rid
of the annoying...
>>>>> Loading Linux... Uncompressing kernel...
He'd have something.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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