Hi all, While long fancy messages have a higher probability of being seen than small messages, they may scroll of the screen fast, if visible at all, and may still be missed. In addition, they increase boot time and kernel size. The correct mechanism to increase importance of a kernel message is not to draw fancy boxes with more text, but to shout louder, i.e. increase the message's reporting level. Making sure the administrator of the system is aware of such a message is a system policy, and is the responsability of a user-space log daemon. This series increases the reporting level of such messages from KERN_WARNING to KERN_CRIT, and removes irrelevant text and graphics. It was made against linux-next, but applies to v5.12-rc5 with an offset for the last patch. Each of these patches reduces kernel size by ca. 0.5 KiB. Thanks for your comments! Geert Uytterhoeven (3): iommu: Use pr_crit() instead of long fancy messages tracing: Use pr_crit() instead of long fancy messages lib/vsprintf: Use pr_crit() instead of long fancy messages drivers/iommu/iommu-debugfs.c | 19 ++++--------------- kernel/trace/trace.c | 17 +++-------------- lib/vsprintf.c | 17 +++-------------- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) -- 2.25.1 Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds