diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 7d1b5c4..2613a80 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -20,12 +20,14 @@ source=("ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-${_basekernel}.tar.bz2
         'config' 'config.x86_64'
         # standard config files for mkinitcpio ramdisk
         "${pkgname}.preset"
-        'fix-i915.patch')
+        'fix-i915.patch'
+        'change-default-console-loglevel.patch')
 md5sums=('398e95866794def22b12dfbc15ce89c0'
          'fc6aae0fb4d70feff92ec762d29dee45'
          'fd5a1712ddea696eee5255de2d854218'
          'eb14dcfd80c00852ef81ded6e826826a'
-         '263725f20c0b9eb9c353040792d644e5')
+         '263725f20c0b9eb9c353040792d644e5'
+         '9d3c56a4b999c8bfbd4018089a62f662')
 
 build() {
   cd "${srcdir}/linux-${_basekernel}"
@@ -38,6 +40,11 @@ build() {
   # fix #19234 i1915 display size
   patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/fix-i915.patch"
 
+  # set DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL to 4 (same value as the 'quiet' kernel param)
+  # remove this when a Kconfig knob is made available by upstream
+  # (relevant patch sent upstream: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/26/227)
+  patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/change-default-console-loglevel.patch"
+
   if [ "${CARCH}" = "x86_64" ]; then
     cat "${srcdir}/config.x86_64" > ./.config
   else
diff --git a/change-default-console-loglevel.patch b/change-default-console-loglevel.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..63435d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/change-default-console-loglevel.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -upr linux-3.0.orig/kernel/printk.c linux-3.0/kernel/printk.c
+--- linux-3.0.orig/kernel/printk.c	2011-07-22 05:17:23.000000000 +0300
++++ linux-3.0/kernel/printk.c	2011-07-27 14:43:07.000000000 +0300
+@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ void asmlinkage __attribute__((weak)) ea
+ 
+ /* We show everything that is MORE important than this.. */
+ #define MINIMUM_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL 1 /* Minimum loglevel we let people use */
+-#define DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL 7 /* anything MORE serious than KERN_DEBUG */
++#define DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL 4 /* anything MORE serious than KERN_DEBUG */
+ 
+ DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(log_wait);
+