On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 02:01:44AM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > We're already printing way too much stuff and this is a not very useful > > message so why not removing the whole thing for good ... > > This is useful for reliability verification. See the thread starting at: > "http://oss.sgi.com/projects/netdev/archive/2004-11/msg00475.html";. The > setting should also be user controllable, but for now people should at > least know whether it's in effect or not. > > Anyone is free to bump their console/syslog loglevel to get rid of less > important messages to suit there preferences. And INFO, which is what the > message uses, is the lowest level for stuff for non-developers. As a deterring example why I try to cut down on system messages checkout: http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/index.php/IP27_boot_messages 70kB of little information crawling over a 19k2 console making kernel startup an entertaining experience for the whole family ;-) Ralf
