From: Nigel Cunningham The freezer currently prints an '=' for every process that is frozen. This is pretty pointless, as the equals sign says nothing about which process is frozen, and makes logs look messier (especially if there were a large number of processes running). All we really need to know is that we started trying to freeze processes and what processes (if any) failed to freeze, or that we succeeded. Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham Acked-by: Pavel Machek Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/power/process.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/power/process.c~quieten-freezer-if-config_pm_debug kernel/power/process.c --- a/kernel/power/process.c~quieten-freezer-if-config_pm_debug +++ a/kernel/power/process.c @@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ void refrigerator(void) long save; save = current->state; pr_debug("%s entered refrigerator\n", current->comm); - printk("="); frozen_process(current); spin_lock_irq(¤t->sighand->siglock); _