From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Wait for console to become available, v3.2 Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:37:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20090420234006.GA1958@cuplxvomd02.corp.sa.net> <20090421064346.GB8020@elte.hu> <200904210013.48551.david-b@pacbell.net> <1240333871.3632.70.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20090421172929.GC8251@cuplxvomd02.corp.sa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090421172929.GC8251-CFZJ1or75eBPWxJt6d6B6bQa8qPdvLwY@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-usb-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David VomLehn Cc: David Woodhouse , David Brownell , alan-qBU/x9rampVanCEyBjwyrvXRex20P6io@public.gmane.org, Ingo Molnar , Arjan van de Ven , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux USB Mailing List , Linux Embedded Mailing List , Andrew Morton On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, David VomLehn wrote: > > What in the world are users going to do when they see a message about > output being lost? There is no way to recover the data and no way to > prevent it in the future. I don't think this is a good approach. Sure there is. The console messages are saved too, so doing 'dmesg' will get you all the data that was generated before the console went on-line. We _already_ lose data in that sense (although we could replay it for the first console connected - maybe we even do, I'm too lazy to check). Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html