On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Sudaraka Wijesinghe <sudaraka.wijesinghe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm playing with a custom kernel just for the fun of it, Everything > works fine except it's very noisy when it boots. I'm using the same > loglevel (4) as the default kernel that is in the Arch repo. And I have > turned off many debug options under kernel hacking section. > It does quiet down when I add the "quiet" parameter to the kernel > command line. > > What I was wondering is how the Arch kernel is keeping it quiet without > using the command line parameter (quiet), is it using a patch for that > or something? It's specified in kernel configuration at compile time: CONFIG_DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL=4 -- Mantas Mikulėnas