Re: Patch to make 2.1.92 function for me. [slow printk()]

Myrdraal (myrdraal@jackalz.dyn.ml.org)
Fri, 3 Apr 1998 11:23:34 -0500


On Thu, Apr 02, 1998 at 10:35:46PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
Hi,
> On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Myrdraal wrote:
> > This is the patch I came up with so that 2.1.92 would work with my
> > modules, and not print out that annoying "raising capabilities" message.
> These printk are not only annoying, but make my machine unusable since
> every printk need some msec to run. All printk are really really slow and
> are making conflicts with the mouse (I had to restart gpm every time I see
> a printk on the console that is not catched by klogd). I am running an
> _SMP_ kernel on a _not_ SMP.
You can turn off printks (except for stuff like panics and oopses) on the
console with alt-sysrq-0 if you have magic sysrq support compiled in.
-Myrdraal

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