From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: s.hauer@pengutronix.de (Sascha Hauer) Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 17:44:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: mx51: Print silicon revision on boot In-Reply-To: References: <1299114747-14091-1-git-send-email-festevam@gmail.com> <87lj0wwr0g.fsf@lebrac.rtp-net.org> Message-ID: <20110303164427.GX29521@pengutronix.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 12:43:14PM -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote: > Hi Arnaud, > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Arnaud Patard wrote: > > Fabio Estevam writes: > > Hi, > > > >> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam > > > > Why I like having boot log, I don't like have too verbose boot logs. If > > you add this, you have a good reason (I hope), but I can't know > > it. There's no patch description. So, please give a patch with proper > > explanation of why you need that. Anyway, having a proper patch > > description is imho always a good idea. > > I think that printing the silicon version on boot is useful > information. Many issues are fixed in the latest silicon revision, so > while debugging mx51 issues it is good to know from the boot log if > someone is using the latest silicon version or not. +1 There is less useful information in the bootlog than this. Also, there's the quiet option to not wait on the slow serial console. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 |