On Friday 28 January 2005 20:37, Alex wrote:
> I see in init/main.c the following functions:
>
> static int __init debug_kernel(char *str)
> {
> if (*str)
> return 0;
> console_loglevel = 10;
> return 1;
> }
>
> static int __init quiet_kernel(char *str)
> {
> if (*str)
> return 0;
> console_loglevel = 4;
> return 1;
> }
>
> __setup("debug", debug_kernel);
> __setup("quiet", quiet_kernel);
>
> Are those functions to be called "manually" (where ?) or
> they get called "automatically" upon setting CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL to
> "y" in .config ?
Those 2 routines are called at boot time if you specify the
corresponding "debug" or "quiet" arguments to the kernel from the boot
loader.
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