Re: [PATCH] clean up kernel messages

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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 <[email protected]> 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


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