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Message-ID: <17899.39250.247475.777798@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 15:15:14 +1100 From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org> To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...e.de> Cc: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, benh@...nel.crashing.org Subject: Re: [patch] Fixes and cleanups for earlyprintk aka boot console. Gerd Hoffmann writes: > This patch fixes the console selection code to *not* consider a boot > console a full-featured one, so the first non-boot console registering > will become the default console instead. This way the unregister call > for the boot console in the register_console() function actually > triggers and the handover from the boot console to the real console > device works smoothly. Added a printk for the handover, so you know > which console device the output goes to when the boot console stops > printing messages. You have removed functionality that is useful for debugging, that 3 architectures had, namely a way to keep using the early boot console and not replace it with a console that comes later, using a kernel command line option. Perhaps you could provide a way to do that in your patch. Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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