From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:19:01 +0100 (BST) Received: (from localhost user: 'ladis' uid#10009 fake: STDIN (ladis@3ffe:8260:2028:fffe::1)) by linux-mips.org id ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:18:59 +0100 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:18:59 +0100 From: Ladislav Michl To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Juan Quintela , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill prom_printf Message-ID: <20030617131859.A32079@ftp.linux-mips.org> References: <20030617125216.E27590@ftp.linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:16:12PM +0200 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 2659 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ladis@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:16:12PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Ladislav Michl wrote: > > > > Well, I would see early_printk() as advantageous if it was also capable > > > to leave messages in the kernel ring buffer for dmesg or klogd to fetch. > > > > Ah, we probably don't understand each other. I should type EARLY_PRINTK > > instead of early_printk (sorry for my lazyness, I'm usually typing in > > lowercase). CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK enables early console, you are supposed to > > use printk everywhere and that way you achieve such functionality. > > So you need to explicitly configure it? That's very bad. I think we can leave it enabled by default, since it doesn't hurt too much. Kernel cmdline argument could control usage of early console. ladis