Increasing the DMESG buffer....

Willem Jan Withagen wjw at digiware.nl
Wed Nov 21 17:25:28 UTC 2012


On 2012-11-21 18:09, Ian Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:08:12 +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>  > on 21/11/2012 18:01 Ian Lepore said the following:
>  > > You know what would be great?  Have this value auto-tune itself upwards
>  > > if bootverbose is true.
>  > 
>  > This sounds /potentially/ neat.
>  > 
>  > > The sound drivers now spit out so much stuff
>  > > with bootverbose true that you need like a 128k buffer to see the early
>  > > boot messages.
>  > 
>  > I'd argue that snd_hda should not do that.  It should use a different knob.
> 
> If I had a +1 I'd spend it on this one.  Great when you need it, but ..

Why bother...
Memory is so cheap these days. We're talking about 64Kb being "wasted".
On average I would assume that there is more than this wasted in odd
bits and pieces in the kernel.

--WjW




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