[coreboot] [PATCH]More consistent behaviour for printk_*

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm at xmission.com
Fri May 1 22:56:20 CEST 2009


Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> writes:

> On 27.04.2009 20:16 Uhr, Myles Watson wrote:
>
>
>         section, but then a lot of strings that never surface would be compiled in
>         (and I doubt the compiler is clever enough to figure that out)
>
>
>     We discussed this recently for v3.  Do you have a good idea of how much
>     space this actually saves?
>
>
>
> It's hardly a few kilobytes. But this is no good way of saving space, by
> trimming user messages and introducing side effects.

When this was introduced.  It was the difference between code that met the
size targets and code that doesn't.  Largely because we have so many messages
at the spew level that really are not intended for users to see just developers.

Eric




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