On Monday, March 14, 2005 12:37 am, Pavel Machek wrote: > Perhaps we could have a rule like > > "non-experimental driver may only print out one line per actual > device?" > > (and perhaps: dmesg output for boot going okay should fit on one screen). > > Or perhaps we should have warnings-like regression testing. > > "New kernel 2.8.17 came: 3 errors, 135 warnings, 1890 lines of dmesg > junk". > Pavel
We already have the 'quiet' option, but even so, I think the kernel is *way* too verbose. Someone needs to make a personal crusade out of removing unneeded and unjustified printks from the kernel before it really gets better though... Jesse - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
