patches to quieten the nexus7 boot messages

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 03:46:48PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> 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.

As these are all at KERN_ERR, surley you can set the console down to
KERN_EMERG only and these will all be suppressed ?  Are you already
using loglevel=0 or just quiet.  In our main kernels we have the commit
below pulling the loglevel lower by default:

  commit 8464b5966d404505aa506c33c1099e6e507cdfc7
  Author: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
  Date:   Thu Oct 8 11:42:36 2009 -0600

    UBUNTU: SAUCE: (no-up) raise the default console 'quiet' level to 2

I don't see this in the n7 kernel, might that help?  We could even move
it lower if appropriate.

-apw