From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BysIY-0004Fv-Th for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 06:22:14 -0700 Received: from almesberger.net ([63.105.73.238] helo=host.almesberger.net) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BysIX-0003o8-UM for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 22 Aug 2004 06:22:15 -0700 From: Werner Almesberger Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Re: [ann] kraxel's 2.6.8 uml patch kit Message-ID: <20040822102202.A6143@almesberger.net> References: <20040820122445.GA21790@bytesex> <200408201901.i7KJ1eIF003843@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> <20040821192842.GC27073@bytesex> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040821192842.GC27073@bytesex>; from kraxel@bytesex.org on Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 09:28:43PM +0200 Sender: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: The user-mode Linux development list List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 10:22:02 -0300 To: Gerd Knorr Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Jeff Dike , uml devel Gerd Knorr wrote: > And I don't want to change that as having printk work early is a cool > debugging feature. Yeah ! I had a quick look at the code, and it seems that you could still occasionally lose printk data in non-catastrophic situations, e.g. when writing to a pipe. I've made a (less nice) patch a while ago that doesn't loses data unless it really really has to: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=user-mode-linux-devel&m=108093851702249&w=2 BTW, do the console changes also remove the requirement that stdin must be a tty, e.g. so that one could do ./linux