On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 13:57:26 +0200 Hans de Goede <hdego...@redhat.com> wrote:
> The goal of passing the "quiet" option to the kernel is for the kernel > to be quiet unless something really is wrong. > > Sofar passing quiet has been (mostly) equivalent to passing > loglevel=4 on the kernel commandline. Which means to show any messages > with a level of KERN_ERR or higher severity on the console. > > In practice this often does not result in a quiet boot though, since > there are many false-positive or otherwise harmless error messages printed, > defeating the purpose of the quiet option. Esp. the ACPICA code is really > bad wrt this, but there are plenty of others too. > > This commit makes CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET configurable. > > This for example will allow distros which want quiet to really mean quiet > to set CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET so that only messages with a higher severity > then KERN_ERR (CRIT, ALERT, EMERG) get printed, avoiding an endless game > of whack-a-mole silencing harmless error messages. > > Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdego...@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rost...@goodmis.org> -- Steve
