From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264248AbTDKF21 (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 01:28:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264254AbTDKF20 (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 01:28:26 -0400 Received: from [195.95.38.160] ([195.95.38.160]:48376 "HELO mail.vt4.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264248AbTDKF2Z convert rfc822-to-8bit (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 01:28:25 -0400 From: DevilKin To: Jon Portnoy , "Richard B. Johnson" Subject: Re: kernel support for non-english user messages Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 07:39:35 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , devilkin-lkml@blindguardian.org References: <3E93A958.80107@si.rr.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304110739.41947.devilkin-lkml@blindguardian.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 April 2003 01:05, Jon Portnoy wrote: > A whole lot of users use dmesg output to figure out if their kernel is > detecting a piece of hardware. That's a very useful thing to have handy > and definitely not something that should be yanked out for the sake of > making it look pretty for people who don't know what they're doing with > their computer. True. Why not turn it into a kernel flag that you can set at bootup through LILO or some other obscure boot manager? Then you could boot linux like this: linux dmesg=verbose and linux dmesg=quiet with any of the two being the default setting. This way you can have the cake and eat it too: the verbose setting for those that want it, and the quiet setting for the users that don't want to get scared sh*tless everytime their system boots. I know I got scared first time I booted a Linux box :P Jan > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+llUapuyeqyCEh60RAoQiAJ482mlR4GYiagB3r05dDRaYtJfWJACfSow4 qO0z3Q68S5TRoUqENlB/Asc= =tMBA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----