Re: [PATCH 1/3] ARM: Add "verbose" parameter for start_linux procedure

Alexander Shiyan shc_work at mail.ru
Wed Jul 10 11:13:15 EDT 2013


> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 02:52:36PM +0200, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:00:39AM +0400, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> > > This patch will make a normal booting more silent.
> > 
> > Why? Booting the kernel is the most important task for barebox. Why
> > shouldn't we see a few lines about what is actually happening here by
> > default.
> > 
> > If you really want no output then introduce a 'quiet' option.
> 
> I think we really need different verbosity levels. standard would be
> 
> - print commandline
> - print which kernel image is started
> - print which devicetree (if any) is used
> 
> There's more I'd like to output optionally, but it's also interesting to
> output less in some cases.

How many people have so many opinions.
What we do with patch then?

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