From patchwork Fri Jan 25 14:46:48 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: patches to quieten the nexus7 boot messages From: Oliver Grawert X-Patchwork-Id: 215759 Message-Id: <1359125208.3301.6.camel@anubis> To: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:46:48 +0100 hi, in the nexus7 kernel a lot of hacked in third party drivers falsely use pr_err or KERN_ERR for printing out info messages to the console ... these messages show up before plymouth starts and give a noisy boot impression even though our kernel logging is already at lowest prio. to quieten that i have switched the respective functions from pr_err to pr_info in the attached 8 patches. please apply them to the nexus7 tree. ciao oli diff -ruN linux-nexus7-3.1.10.orig/arch/arm/mach-tegra/board-grouper-sdhci.c linux-nexus7-3.1.10/arch/arm/mach-tegra/board-grouper-sdhci.c --- linux-nexus7-3.1.10.orig/arch/arm/mach-tegra/board-grouper-sdhci.c 2012-12-14 17:16:54.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-nexus7-3.1.10/arch/arm/mach-tegra/board-grouper-sdhci.c 2013-01-25 14:25:03.111360213 +0100 @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ static int grouper_wifi_power(int on) { - pr_err("Powering %s wifi\n", (on ? "on" : "off")); + pr_info("Powering %s wifi\n", (on ? "on" : "off")); gpio_set_value(GROUPER_WLAN_PWR, on); mdelay(100);