[PATCH] [MIPS] change EARLY_PRINTK default to n

[David Pelton <david.r.pelton@gmail.com>]

This patch changes the default for CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK to n.  Prior to
this change, the presence of SYS_HAS_EARLY_PRINTK would always set
EARLY_PRINTK to y if either EMBEDDED or DEBUG_KERNEL were not set.  As
this is a debugging option, it should default to n.

Signed-off-by: David Pelton <david.r.pelton@gmail.com>
---

Hi,

while fiddling with kernel configuration options for the Broadcom eval
board I am working with, I noticed that turning off DEBUG_KERNEL would
make many bad things happen.  I did not get to the root cause, but I
think that some of the early printk drivers have some dependency on
functionality enabled by DEBUG_KERNEL.  The 2.6.25.6 kernel has a
default value of "y" for EARLY_PRINTK, and this default will be applied
anytime the platform claims to support early printk.  In particular, if
DEBUG_KERNEL is not selected, there is no way to disable EARLY_PRINTK.
This patch changes the default to "n" to avoid these problems.

- David Pelton


 arch/mips/Kconfig |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)


diff -Nraup linux-2.6.25.6-clean/arch/mips/Kconfig linux-2.6.25.6/arch/mips/Kconfig
--- linux-2.6.25.6-clean/arch/mips/Kconfig      2008-06-09 14:27:19.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.25.6/arch/mips/Kconfig    2008-06-16 14:34:33.229160000 -0400
@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ config DMA_NEED_PCI_MAP_STATE
 config EARLY_PRINTK
        bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED && DEBUG_KERNEL
        depends on SYS_HAS_EARLY_PRINTK
-       default y
+       default n
        help
          This option enables special console drivers which allow the kernel
          to print messages very early in the bootup process.