From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Bjorn Helgaas" Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 04:27:44 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64: reset console_loglevel so INIT output always Message-Id: <1749.24.9.197.67.1105331264.squirrel@24.9.197.67> List-Id: References: <1105140871.25267.50.camel@eeyore> In-Reply-To: <1105140871.25267.50.camel@eeyore> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org > As Keith pointed out, we are working on returning from an INIT. > > Would it be reasonable to save the current console_loglevel, > set console_loglevel up to 15, call init_handler_platform(), and > then set console_loglevel back to the original level? > > Right now init_handler_platform() never returns. When the code > is improved to return, the console_loglevel will get restored > to the correct level. Sure. I expect that we will one day be able to continue after an INIT, and I considered doing the save/restore in the current patch. But I preferred the simplest possible patch, partly because this is an issue for distributions, and I'd like to see them pick this up quickly