Re: Reducing SIGINFO verbosity
- In reply to: Warner Losh : "Re: Reducing SIGINFO verbosity"
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Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 15:52:00 UTC
On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 08:36:49AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 7:38 AM Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> wrote: > > > On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 03:57:17PM -0700, Conrad Meyer wrote: > > > No, I don’t think there’s any reason to default it differently on stable > > vs > > > current. I think it’s useful (and I prefer the more verbose form, which > > > isn’t the default). > > > > I agree that there's no reason for the default to be different, but I > > would say that it is much easier for someone who knows that there is a > > default to be changed to change it, than it is for someone who does not. > > Therefore, if the information is not useful to someone who does not know > > how to get rid of it, then it should default to not being displayed, > > IMHO. > > > > I plan on changing the default for non-INVARIANT kernels back to > the old behavior. > > INVARIANT kernels will keep this behavior because it's a debugging > kernel and this is one more thing to help debugging problems. Sounds good. Ceri --