Re: [PATCH/REQ] Increase kmsg buffer from 16K to 32K, kernel/printk.c

David Ford (david@linux.com)
Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:12:32 -0800


"Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > Does Linus or anyone object to raising the ksmg buffer from 16K to 32K?
> > > 4/5 systems I have now overflow the buffer during boot before init is
> > > even launched.
> >
> > Thats just an indication that 2.4.x is currently printking too much crap on
> > boot
>
> We could probably get rid of much of the crap for i386 by #undef
> APIC_DEBUG in include/asm-i386/apic.h. Too bad broken SMP systems get
> reported every now and then and the crap proves useful in getting what
> actually is wrong.

The largest bodies of text come from scsi, irda, usb, and udf.

The LP/parport could stand being trimmed too.

The fatfs barfs out bogus cluster size messages when I don't have any FAT type
filesystems.

Question is, If I submit patches to tidy up the boot messages, when will(can)
they be applied? 2.4 or 2.5?

-d

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