linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] printk: allow direct console printing to be enabled always

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Message-ID: <YrEgNX/3VLlO1DHH@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 21 Jun 2022 10:34:45 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
To:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] printk: allow direct console printing to be enabled
 always

On (22/06/20 09:56), Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > > Otherwise it looks OK to me. But you may want to wait on a response from
> > > Petr, Sergey, or Steven before sending a v3. You are adding a kernel
> > > config and a boot argument. Both of these are sensitive topics that
> > > require more feedback from others.
> > 
> > A tricky situation. I think John already mentioned in another thread
> > that any such config/boot param potentially can become a default value
> > for some setups; at the same time, well, yeah, I see what commit message
> > talks about.
> 
> Moving it into the debug section of kconfig hopefully sends the right
> message there. Plus the help text makes it clear there are performance
> implications and such.

No objections from me.