linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] kernel booting messages, first line

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Message-ID: <5682D420.3030207@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 29 Dec 2015 10:42:40 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:	Alexandru GOIA <alexandru.goia@....pub.ro>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] kernel booting messages, first line

On 12/28/15 17:31, Alexandru GOIA wrote:
> 
> For -rc8 ,
> 
> Hoping that someone DO cares about the aesthetic of kernel messages at boot :
> 
>  
> What it does : first line of booting kernel, as seen in dmesg(1), will be the Linux kernel signature
> (version, compiler, compiler hostname).
> 
> What it solves : it appers ahead of cgroup messages at booting.
> 
> 
> This ugliness, since 3.10.x kernel.
> 
> 
> So :
> 
> Instead of the unaesthetic lines :
> 
> Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
> Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
> Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
> Linux version 4 ...
> 
> 
> ... We will have :
> 
> 
> Linux version 4 ...
> Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
> Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
> Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
> 
> 
> As normal .
> 
> 
> In file linux-4.4-rc7/init/main.c  :
> 
> <code>
> 
> --- main.c      2015-12-28 04:17:37.000000000 +0200
> +++ main+.c     2015-12-29 03:18:59.896820046 +0200
> @@ -512,6 +512,7 @@
>           * Set up the the initial canary ASAP:
>           */
>          boot_init_stack_canary();
> +       pr_notice("%s", linux_banner);
>  
>          cgroup_init_early();
>  
> @@ -524,7 +525,6 @@
>   */
>          boot_cpu_init();
>          page_address_init();
> -       pr_notice("%s", linux_banner);
>          setup_arch(&command_line);
>          mm_init_cpumask(&init_mm);
>          setup_command_line(command_line);
> 
> </code>
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Goia <alexandru.goia@....pub.ro>--


I like the patch. Could you make it a proper kernel patch, please?


thanks,
-- 
~Randy
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