[arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.07.1-1

[Tom Gundersen]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26 July 2011 06:36, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 06:26:40AM +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
>>> On 26 July 2011 05:43, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > On 25 July 2011 23:51, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
>>> >> The VERBOSE parameter no longer has an effect, use the kernel's
>>> >> loglevel= parameter instead. Most p
>>> >
>>> > I don't like this change. While you say there's a way to make it less
>>> > verbose, after only merging the changes to rc.conf, dmesg output will
>>> > get interleaved with initscripts output during boot, which looks
>>> > horrible: http://imgur.com/a/wbG9z
>>> >
>>> > No signoff. :>
>>>
>>> Dave explained to me on IRC that the loglevel=[1-8] or quiet options
>>> can be passed to the kernel to control this.
>>>
>>> It would make sense to default to, say, loglevel=4 (that's what quiet
>>> sets) if no verbosity-related options are passed to the kernel.
>>
>> So, would this be done in initscripts or initramfs? The 'quiet'
>> parameter isn't some big secret.
>
> I'd say in initscripts, because before that only the kernel prints
> messages. When initscripts kicks in, its output gets combined with the
> kernel messages and creates a visually unappealing result. :p
>
> I think that capping loglevel to 4 in initscripts would work well:
>
> --8<------------
> # limit console verbosity to no more than 4 (error conditions)
> # this is done to keep initscripts' output clean and readable
> set -- $(< /proc/sys/kernel/printk)
> (( $1 > 4 )) && echo 4 >/proc/sys/kernel/printk
> --8<------------
>
> Opinions?

What about those who manually want to set the loglevel to something else?

I guess we could put a notice in initscripts.install suggesting people
to amend "quiet" to their kernel command line. Would that be ok?

-t