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From: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@suse.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] printk: Handle pre-enabled consoles directly in register_console()
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:03:53 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aZcmWZ8InYXF6Ur2@chrisdown.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260206165002.496724-8-pmladek@suse.com>

Petr Mladek writes:
>The function try_enable_preferred_console() currently has the
>non-obvious side effect of returning success for consoles that are
>already pre-enabled. This obscures the logic flow during console
>registration.
>
>Move the check for pre-enabled consoles directly into
>register_console(). This change makes the handling of pre-enabled
>consoles explicit and easier to follow.
>
>Furthermore, this separation lays the groundwork for future cleanups
>where try_enable_preferred_console() can be restricted to cases where
>an entry actually exists in the preferred_consoles[] array.
>
>Possible behavior change:
>
>try_enable_preferred_console() will newly be called also with
>@user_specified parameter set to "false" when it failed with the "true"
>variant. But it looks like the right way to do. It will allow to call
>newcon->setup() when the console was preferred by some platform
>specific code.
>
>Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>

Looks cracking, thanks.

Acked-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>

  reply	other threads:[~2026-02-19 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-06 16:49 [PATCH 0/8] printk: Clean up preferred console handling Petr Mladek
2026-02-06 16:49 ` [PATCH 1/8] printk: Rename struct console_cmdline to preferred_console Petr Mladek
2026-02-19 14:40   ` Chris Down
2026-02-19 18:34   ` Marcos Paulo de Souza
2026-02-06 16:49 ` [PATCH 2/8] printk: Rename preferred_console to preferred_dev_console Petr Mladek
2026-02-19 14:41   ` Chris Down
2026-02-19 18:37   ` Marcos Paulo de Souza
2026-02-06 16:49 ` [PATCH 3/8] printk: Separate code for adding/updating preferred console metadata Petr Mladek
2026-02-16 14:05   ` John Ogness
2026-02-19 12:46     ` Petr Mladek
2026-02-19 14:06       ` John Ogness
2026-02-19 14:48   ` Chris Down
2026-02-19 16:51     ` Petr Mladek
2026-02-06 16:49 ` [PATCH 4/8] printk: Cleanup _braille_(un)register_console() wrappers Petr Mladek
2026-02-19 14:49   ` Chris Down
2026-02-19 18:50   ` Marcos Paulo de Souza
2026-02-06 16:49 ` [PATCH 5/8] printk: Try to register each console as Braille first Petr Mladek
2026-02-19 14:59   ` Chris Down
2026-02-19 16:59     ` Petr Mladek
2026-02-20  4:52       ` Chris Down
2026-02-20 11:43         ` Petr Mladek
2026-02-06 16:50 ` [PATCH 6/8] printk: Do not set Braille console as preferred_console Petr Mladek
2026-02-16 16:07   ` John Ogness
2026-02-19 14:55     ` Petr Mladek
2026-02-19 15:35       ` John Ogness
2026-02-19 15:03   ` Chris Down
2026-02-06 16:50 ` [PATCH 7/8] printk: Handle pre-enabled consoles directly in register_console() Petr Mladek
2026-02-19 15:03   ` Chris Down [this message]
2026-02-06 16:50 ` [PATCH 8/8] printk: Try enable preferred consoles only when there are any Petr Mladek
2026-02-19 15:16   ` Chris Down
2026-02-17  8:56 ` [PATCH 0/8] printk: Clean up preferred console handling John Ogness
2026-02-19 15:20 ` Chris Down

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