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SubjectRe: cutting down on boot messages
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Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> writes:

> You'd do better to have a boot time command line option to limit printk
> messages to err, or above. Most of the printk messages have been given a
> severity already, so this shouldn't be a problem, and it will probably
> uncover some errors in the severity of certain messages.

Right.
In fact I'd rather leave the console printing KERN_INFO and make sure
the (debug) messages are really KERN_DEBUG. This way we wouldn't have
much noise with normal boot, but we could see KERN_DEBUG when something
goes wrong (and the kernel is being told to print everything).
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Krzysztof Halasa
Network Administrator
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