[arch-general] Kernel verbosity

[martin kalcher]

Am 18.07.2012 16:02, schrieb Sudaraka Wijesinghe:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm playing with a custom kernel just for the fun of it, Everything
> works fine except it's very noisy when it boots. I'm using the same
> loglevel (4) as the default kernel that is in the Arch repo. And I have
> turned off many debug options under kernel hacking section.
> It does quiet down when I add the "quiet" parameter to the kernel
> command line.
>
> What I was wondering is how the Arch kernel is keeping it quiet without
> using the command line parameter (quiet), is it using a patch for that
> or something?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> P.s.
> Messages I get are hardware probing, state changes and file system
> mount, etc.
>

Do you use systemd? Have a look here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Q:_Why_do_I_get_log_messages_on_my_console.3F