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Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2014 15:00:43 +0100
From:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, pmladek@...e.cz,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] printk: Add config option for disabling printk
 offloading

On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 23:41:59 +0200 (CEST)
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> 
> > Given this all only affects huge boxes and the only fix we have right 
> > now is hideously ugly I'd rather it stayed in the vendor hacks to their 
> > trees, until someone is inspired to sort it properly.
> 
> I have to say I am rather disappointed by this statement, indirectly 
> implying that vanilla kernel doesn't care about booting properly on huge 
> boxes.

You read what you like into it, but don't imply that I don't care about
big boxes. It's a corner case. We shouldn't muck the rest of the system
up by botchfixing for a corner case. It's not a regression.

Find a clean fix for it and it's different, but the clean fix seems to be
involve getting a chunk of the continuing tty into tty_port work done.

Alan
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