From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932669AbWBYElN (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:41:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932670AbWBYElN (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:41:13 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:32952 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932669AbWBYElM (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:41:12 -0500 From: Andi Kleen To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: [patch] x86: clean up early_printk output Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 05:29:10 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel , Linus Torvalds References: <200602241909_MC3-1-B93E-25B@compuserve.com> In-Reply-To: <200602241909_MC3-1-B93E-25B@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602250529.11099.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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