[PATCH] be less annoying on boot

[Christopher Brown]

 On Friday 01 August 2008 3:51:05 pm Bill Nottingham wrote:
> As long as we're printing mostly useless messages on every boot
> regardless of debug level, make them 5% more amusing.

Sometimes I think a Frankenstein quote more appropriate:


--- linux-2.6.26.noarch/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c.foo	2008-08-01
15:44:28.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.26.noarch/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c	2008-08-01
15:46:53.000000000 -0400
@@ -109,11 +109,11 @@

 	early_printk("Kernel alive\n");

 	x86_64_init_pda();

-	early_printk("Kernel really alive\n");
+      early_printk("And now, with the world before me, "
                                                     "whither should I
bend my steps?\n");

 	x86_64_start_reservations(real_mode_data);
 }

 void __init x86_64_start_reservations(char *real_mode_data)



-- 
Christopher Brown

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