Re: Cleanup console loglevels

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Fri May 16 2014 - 14:36:51 EST


On 05/16/2014 10:51 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 07:49:21PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> so I was staring at
>>
>> 12544697f12e ("x86_64: be less annoying on boot, v2")
>>
>> and how naked numbers mean sh*t and how I have to grep sources to find
>> out what this 10 thing means. So how about the following cleanup? We can
>> do it this way, we can do accessors and stuff, whatever. But the naked
>> numbers are plain misleading.
>>
>> So how about it? I'm asking whether it makes sense first before I go
>> and replace all tests of console_loglevel with naked numbers around the
>> tree.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> ---
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
>> index 068054f4bf20..0029d974e431 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
>> @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init x86_64_start_kernel(char * real_mode_data)
>> */
>> load_ucode_bsp();
>>
>> - if (console_loglevel == 10)
>> + if (console_loglevel >= CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET)
>
> That's CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_DEBUG, of course.
>
> See, misleading. :-P
>

Absolutely. I'll ack it with that change.

--
~Randy
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