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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] x86: clean up early_printk output
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 05:29:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602250529.11099.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602241909_MC3-1-B93E-25B@compuserve.com>

On Saturday 25 February 2006 01:07, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> early_printk() starts output on the second screen line and doesn't
> clear the rest of the line when it hits a newline char.  When there
> is already a BIOS message there, it becomes hard to read.  Change
> this so it starts on the first line and clears to EOL upon hitting
> newline.

early_printk is designed to do absolutely minimal work to get the 
message out. Your patch adds too much potential disturbance 
imho.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-25  4:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-25  0:07 [patch] x86: clean up early_printk output Chuck Ebbert
2006-02-25  2:07 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-25  4:29 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-25  6:22 Chuck Ebbert

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