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From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	Shreyas Joshi <shreyas.joshi@biamp.com>,
	shreyasjoshi15@gmail.com,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] printk/console: Use ttynull when no console is available or wanted
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:24:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <X7fRpVezPnh2uCVc@alley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201111135450.11214-1-pmladek@suse.com>

On Wed 2020-11-11 14:54:48, Petr Mladek wrote:
> This is another attempt to solve regression caused by the commit
> 48021f98130880dd74 ("printk: handle blank console arguments passed in.").
> 
> It prevented a crash caused by empty console= parameter. But it caused
> performance problems on Chromebooks because they use it to disable
> all consoles, see
> see https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201006025935.GA597@jagdpanzerIV.localdomain
> 
> Solve both problems by using ttynull console driver that was crated
> exactly for this purpose.
> 
> The 1st patch should prevent the crash for any invalid console name.
> 
> The 2nd patch allows to used the ttynull driver also with the widely
> used console= and console=null parameters.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Petr
> 
> Petr Mladek (2):
>   init/console: Use ttynull as a fallback when there is no console
>   printk/console: Allow to disable console output by using console="" or
>     console=null

The patchset has been committed into printk/linux.git, branch
for-5.11-null-console.

Best Regards,
Petr

      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-20 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-11 13:54 [PATCH 0/2] printk/console: Use ttynull when no console is available or wanted Petr Mladek
2020-11-11 13:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] init/console: Use ttynull as a fallback when there is no console Petr Mladek
2020-11-11 16:36   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-11-11 22:52   ` Guenter Roeck
2020-11-11 23:58   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-11-12  0:17   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-11-12  1:45     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-11-16 16:20       ` Petr Mladek
2021-01-06 23:36   ` ARC no console output (was Re: [PATCH 1/2] init/console: Use ttynull as a fallback when there is no console) Vineet Gupta
2021-01-07  9:02     ` John Ogness
2021-01-07 13:14       ` Greg Ungerer
2021-01-07 16:43       ` Vineet Gupta
2021-01-07 17:04         ` Petr Mladek
2021-01-07 17:58           ` Vineet Gupta
2021-01-08  3:48             ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2021-01-08  5:18               ` Vineet Gupta
2021-01-08  9:30                 ` Petr Mladek
2021-01-13 22:07             ` Peter Korsgaard
2021-01-07  9:09     ` Richard Weinberger
2021-01-07 12:48     ` Petr Mladek
2021-01-07 15:27     ` [Buildroot] " Yann E. MORIN
2020-11-11 13:54 ` [PATCH 2/2] printk/console: Allow to disable console output by using console="" or console=null Petr Mladek
2020-11-11 22:52   ` Guenter Roeck
2020-11-11 23:59   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-11-20 14:24 ` Petr Mladek [this message]

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