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Message-Id: <200705251650.50471.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 16:50:50 -0700
From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
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
On Friday, May 25, 2007 4:43:41 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.
Yeah, that sounds much better. Then it can just be under the usual 'debug'
command line option.
Jesse
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