[PATCH] be less annoying on boot

Eric Paris eparis at redhat.com
Sat Aug 2 14:16:30 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 14:59 +0100, Christopher Brown wrote:
> 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:

NAK, does not apply.


> --- 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)
> 
> 
> 




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