[arch-general] Kernel verbosity

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Sudaraka Wijesinghe
<sudaraka.wijesinghe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

It's specified in kernel configuration at compile time:

CONFIG_DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LOGLEVEL=4

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Mantas Mikulėnas