linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kernel.printk.c - ensure that "console enabled" messages are printed on the console

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Date:	Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:25:47 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Robin Getz <rgetz@...ckfin.uclinux.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel.printk.c - ensure that "console enabled"
	messages are printed on the console


* Robin Getz <rgetz@...ckfin.uclinux.org> wrote:

> From: Robin Getz <rgetz@...ckfin.uclinux.org>
> 
> Today, when a console is registered without CON_PRINTBUFFER, end 
> users never see the announcement of it being added, and never know 
> if they missed something, if the console is really at the start or 
> not, and just leads to general confusion.
> 
> This re-orders existing code, to make sure the console is added, 
> before the "console [%s%d] enabled" is printed out - ensuring that 
> this message is _always_ seen.
> 
> This has the desired/intended side effect of making sure that 
> "console enabled:" messages are printed on the bootconsole, and 
> the real console. This does cause the same line is printed twice 
> if the bootconsole and real console are the same device, but if 
> they are on different devices, the message is printed to both 
> consoles.
> 
> Signed-off-by : Robin Getz <rgetz@...ckfin.uclinux.org>
> 
> ---
> 
>  printk.c |   44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>  1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> patch generated for -tip

Looks good, applied it to tip:core/printk for v2.6.32, thanks Robin. 

i fixed a couple of small details in the patch:

 - re-broke the commit log as it was too wide for nice git log 
   output

 - fixed a stray whitespace warned about by scripts/checkpatch.pl

 - fixed another stray whitespace found the old fashioned way

 - fixed the patch title to match the prefix used by your previous 
   commit as well

	Ingo
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