Re: [PATCH v11 5/5] x86/earlyprintk: Patch for testing earlyprintk

Borislav Petkov
2015-06-09T16:11:38Z

On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 06:30:18PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 17:11 +0600, Alexander Kuleshov wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
>
> Please, mark those patches as something like "[NOT TO APPLY]".
>
> Or you may (if others have no objections) create a configuration option
> like CONFIG_TEST_EARLY_PRINTK and make this patch upstreamable.

I think this is too much. No need for it - it's not like you can
automatically test early printk - you need to go stare at dmesg. And
if you want to do that, you can sprinkle some early_printk() calls
yourself.

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