linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Early printk support for virtio console devices.

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Message-Id: <9DCAE29E-A113-4E74-A663-1AB224AD97E0@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:53:58 +0200
From:	Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>
To:	Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@...aro.org>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar <pranavkumar@...aro.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org" <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	"patches@...aro.org" <patches@...aro.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu" <kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Early printk support for virtio console devices.


On 29.04.2013, at 14:50, Peter Maydell wrote:

> On 29 April 2013 13:22, Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de> wrote:
>> Oh, and it should default to off.
> 
> That would be a pretty unhelpful default. We should default
> things so that console output from the kernel is available
> as early as reasonably possible by default IMHO -- this
> reduces the number of "nothing happens" user complaints
> where you then have to explain how to enable early printk
> so you can get some actual information about what happened.

Users complaining that they only see half of their kernel log are even worse IMHO :)


Alex

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