On (06/19/18 09:31), Steven Rostedt 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>
Looks OK to me Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhat...@gmail.com> -ss