From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Mike Frysinger" Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Add Alternative Log Buffer Support for printk Messages Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:23:33 -0500 Message-ID: <8bd0f97a0811251723j7bac6964u237aa6c1228a7d89@mail.gmail.com> References: <1227638045-12862-1-git-send-email-gerickson@nuovations.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=WvHta/HyO6l7+NiwzMlnRAz3oVneAaor8Jt0q0A5lcg=; b=g91ta7CLUOeCmp+hQW+xvKEzjwkdS6BVJosZjEqy/wux4mgGa8Gy2pLtAgJeTdVAYL bxzUdrMwHhkYtSUf8RPs2MYfiOClFDn8UnW8E3aDAqhCjY/DFMsBDvxIoQvQuFTTeJ6K WFAvPRDISfrANafFV1wBiTSpZzmJAEuZIrWGY= In-Reply-To: <1227638045-12862-1-git-send-email-gerickson@nuovations.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Grant Erickson Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, Wolfgang Denx , Stefan Roese On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 13:34, Grant Erickson wrote: > This merges support for the previously DENX-only kernel feature of > specifying an alternative, "external" buffer for kernel printk > messages and their associated metadata. In addition, this ports > architecture support for this feature from arch/ppc to arch/powerpc. > > Signed-off-by: Grant Erickson > --- > > When this option is enabled, an architecture- or machine-specific log > buffer is used for all printk messages. This allows entities such as > boot loaders (e.g. U-Boot) to place printk-compatible messages into > this buffer and for the kernel to coalesce them with its normal > messages. > this extended info should be part of the changelog and thus above the --- marker ... -mike