linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] i386/x86_64: Allow disabling the putstr's from compressed boot wrapper

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Message-ID: <465774AD.8020408@zytor.com>
Date:	Fri, 25 May 2007 16:43:41 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
CC:	Ben Collins <ben.collins@...ntu.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Ben Collins <bcollins@...ntu.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] i386/x86_64: Allow disabling the putstr's from compressed
 boot wrapper

Jesse Barnes wrote:
> 
> Right, but you're special that way.  And moreover, you would know how to add 
> such debug statements as needed.  But is this output something we really need 
> enabled unconditionally for everyone?
> 

*I* can do that, yes, but I usually don't have access to the platform in
question.

As such I really don't want to see this as a compilation option.  Make
it a runtime option[*] so the user with the problematic machine.

> I personally don't care that much, aside from the feeling that we have way too 
> many printks in general...

[*] FWIW, my setup rewrite has a proper command-line parser in it, so we
can use the command line from the start.
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