On Apr 21, 2011 6:17 AM, "Tom Gundersen" <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Andreas Radke <a.radke@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:29:20 +0200 > > schrieb Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@xxxxxx>: > >> yes, i think this is because i enabled printk_time option. > > > > Once again somebody request something and we don't think about it > > and enable it without any need... > > > > The configuration item CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK: > > CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME is not the same as CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK. The former > is very useful to make sense of dmesg (otherwise you dont know what > messages "belong together") and it should not have any negative side > effects (I have been using it for years). The latter might be, as you > say, annoying and should perhaps be removed, it is not new in this > release though (it is from before the start of the packages repo)... > > Cheers, > > Tom the kconfig for PRINTK_TIME doesn't mention that its only setting a default behavior. The cmdline accepts printk.time= which can be set to 1/0 to appropriately disable or enable. Plus one to removing this as its really only good for debugging and making a mess of your logs. Dave
