linux-kernel - Re: CONFIG_EARLY

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Message-ID: <5144AE20.7030202@infradead.org>
Date:	Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:38:40 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK

On 03/16/13 08:08, Thomas Meyer wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 13.03.2013, 12:56 -0700 schrieb Randy Dunlap:
>> On 03/13/13 10:15, Thomas Meyer wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>  -*- Early printk 
>>>
>>> help text says:
>>> "You should normally N here, unless you want to debug such a crash.
>>> (Depends on: EXPERT [=n])"
>>>
>>> How to normally N here?
>>
>> You'll have to enable CONFIG_EXPERT and then you can disable EARLY_PRINTK.
>>
>> You may even have to disable CONFIG_EMBEDDED before you can enable
>> CONFIG_EXPERT (I did).
>>
>> Too many hoops to have to jump through.   :(
>>
> 
> Yes,
> 
> so why not do this? As the text to EARLY_PRINTK explains?

Yes, the default should match the help text.
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>

Please resend your patch with Signed-off-by: line.

Thanks.

> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
> index b322f12..d6c2d89 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP
>  
>  config EARLY_PRINTK
>         bool "Early printk" if EXPERT
> -       default y
> +       default n
>         ---help---
>           Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a
> serial
>           port.
> 
> 
> 


-- 
~Randy
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