kexec-tools-2.0.2 prints unnecessary message on stderr when loaded in VESA framebuffer

Maxim Kammerer mk at dee.su
Thu Mar 8 12:29:25 EST 2012


Hi,

In kexec/arch/i386/x86-linux-setup.c:setup_linux_vesafb():

    fprintf(stderr, "%s: %dx%dx%d @ %lx +%x\n", __FUNCTION__,
        var.xres, var.yres, var.bits_per_pixel,
        fix.smem_start, fix.smem_len);

This message is pretty annoying (especially if kexec is loaded several
times with different parameters during startup/shutdown). Looking in
that source file, that's the only fprintf which is not an error. Is it
really necessary?

I opened a Gentoo bug report
(https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407445), and the assignee
suggested reporting upstream.

Thanks,
Maxim

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Maxim Kammerer
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