Re: more than 50 percent of dmesg belongs only to PCI and USB

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:28:49AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 13:11 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> > Can we make dmesg little bit better and remove some noise and put these
> > debug messages on /sys/kernel/debug/ :
> 
> I think they should just be KERN_DEBUG, that way they won't be displayed
> to most users, except people who want to see them.
> 
> The problem is it's easier to write:
> 
>   dev_info(&dev->dev, "transparent bridge\n");
> 
> than:
> 
>   dev_printk(KERN_DEBUG, &dev->dev, "transparent bridge\n");
> 
> and, dev_dbg() does not do what you want in this case.

Why not?  It prints it out if you enable the config option at run-time,
which is what you want.

thanks,

greg k-h
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/