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Subject: Re: Reducing noise in dmesg output
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+-------[ peterjeremy@acm.org ]----------------------
|
| Whilst SIGINFO helps once userland starts, I would not be comfortable
| with a system that reported nothing between the boot loader and login
| prompts.

Agreed.

Especially after installs on new hardware, or after an upgrade / kernel
rebuild.

We already have -m and -q bootflags...


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Andrew Milton
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