Re: [PATCH] make loglevels in init/main.c a little more sane.

From: Coywolf Qi Hunt
Date: Mon Aug 22 2005 - 17:44:07 EST


On 1/23/05, Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch modifies a few of the printk() loglevels used in init/main.c in
> an attempt to make them a bit more appropriate.
>
> The default loglevel is KERN_WARNING, but a few printk's without explicit
> loglevel are not (in my oppinion) warnings, so add proper warning levels -
> for instance; telling the user how many CPU's were brought up is hardly a
> warning, make it KERN_INFO instead. The initial printing of linux_banner
> is not a warning condition, I'd say it's more of a NOTICE or even INFO
> condition - I've made it KERN_NOTICE just as the printing of the kernel
> command line. A few printk's without explicit loglevel do match the
> default one, but I've made them explicit (the default could change in the
> future, and if it does then explicitly setting the proper loglevel is a
> nice thing).
> Please consider applying.
>
> Patch compiles and boots fine on my box.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@xxxxxx>
>
> diff -up linux-2.6.11-rc2-orig/init/main.c linux-2.6.11-rc2/init/main.c
> --- linux-2.6.11-rc2-orig/init/main.c 2005-01-22 22:00:02.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.11-rc2/init/main.c 2005-01-22 22:45:23.000000000 +0100
> @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ static void __init smp_init(void)
> }
>
> /* Any cleanup work */
> - printk("Brought up %ld CPUs\n", (long)num_online_cpus());
> + printk(KERN_INFO "Brought up %ld CPUs\n", (long)num_online_cpus());
> smp_cpus_done(max_cpus);
> #if 0
> /* Get other processors into their bootup holding patterns. */
> @@ -428,6 +428,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void
> */
> lock_kernel();
> page_address_init();
> + printk(KERN_NOTICE);
> printk(linux_banner);

Why not merge it to the same line?

> setup_arch(&command_line);
> setup_per_cpu_areas();

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Coywolf Qi Hunt
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