The patch titled remove pointless printk from i386 oops output has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is remove-pointless-printk-from-i386-oops-output.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: remove pointless printk from i386 oops output From: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> This just got removed on x86-64, do the same on 32bit. It always annoyed me when this ate a line of oops output pushing interesting stuff off the screen. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- arch/i386/kernel/traps.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/traps.c~remove-pointless-printk-from-i386-oops-output arch/i386/kernel/traps.c --- a/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c~remove-pointless-printk-from-i386-oops-output +++ a/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c @@ -775,7 +775,6 @@ void __kprobes die_nmi(struct pt_regs *r printk(" on CPU%d, eip %08lx, registers:\n", smp_processor_id(), regs->eip); show_registers(regs); - printk(KERN_EMERG "console shuts up ...\n"); console_silent(); spin_unlock(&nmi_print_lock); bust_spinlocks(0); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from davej@xxxxxxxxxx are remove-silly-messages-from-input-layer.patch git-netdev-all.patch remove-pointless-printk-from-i386-oops-output.patch move-rmap-bug_on-outside-debug_vm.patch move-rmap-bug_on-outside-debug_vm.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html