core: don't reset log level to NOTICE if we get quiet on the kernel cmdline

[elogind.git] / src / shared / log.c

diff --git a/src/shared/log.c b/src/shared/log.c
index 9c0156026d0a5a7d57b3596fcdae69c2d0dc57cb..03ef018bd4b870268806f8e2e890180236407c00 100644 (file)
--- a/src/shared/log.c
+++ b/src/shared/log.c
@@ -914,7 +914,9 @@ static int parse_proc_cmdline_item(const char *key, const char *value) {
          * The systemd.log_xyz= settings are parsed by all tools, and
          * so is "debug".
          *
-         * However, "quiet" is only parsed by PID 1!
+         * However, "quiet" is only parsed by PID 1, and only turns of
+         * status output to /dev/console, but does not alter the log
+         * level.
          */
 
         if (streq(key, "debug") && !value)