linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] Only print "Decompressing Linux" etc when 'noisy' is passed.

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Message-ID: <18487.57106.644612.157155@harpo.it.uu.se>
Date:	Sat, 24 May 2008 11:25:38 +0200
From:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
To:	Kristian Høgsberg <krh@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Only print "Decompressing Linux" etc when 'noisy' is passed.

=?utf-8?q?Kristian=20H=C3=B8gsberg?= writes:
 > Signed-off-by: Kristian HÃ¸gsberg <krh@...hat.com>
 > ---
 >  arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c |   30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 >  1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

How is this an improvement? What bug does it fix?
Is there any evidence that these messages are harmful
for end-users?

All this accomplishes is to make early boot failures harder
to debug.
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