linux-kernel - Re: Wait for console to become available, v3.2

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904211036140.2199@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:37:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David VomLehn <dvomlehn@...co.com>
cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux USB Mailing List <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Embedded Mailing List <linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Wait for console to become available, v3.2



On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, David VomLehn wrote:
> 
> What in the world are users going to do when they see a message about
> output being lost? There is no way to recover the data and no way to
> prevent it in the future. I don't think this is a good approach.

Sure there is. The console messages are saved too, so doing 'dmesg' will 
get you all the data that was generated before the console went on-line.

We _already_ lose data in that sense (although we could replay it for the 
first console connected - maybe we even do, I'm too lazy to check).

			Linus
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