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Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:01:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 17:01:19 +0200 From: Petr Mladek To: Andrew Murray Cc: Jonathan Corbet , Shuah Khan , Russell King , Florian Fainelli , Broadcom internal kernel review list , Ray Jui , Scott Branden , Steven Rostedt , John Ogness , Sergey Senozhatsky , Andrew Morton , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , Clark Williams , Randy Dunlap , Linus Torvalds , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] printk: deprecate boot_delay in favour of printk_delay Message-ID: References: <20260630-deprecate_boot_delay-v2-0-f9883d36aa4b@thegoodpenguin.co.uk> <20260630-deprecate_boot_delay-v2-2-f9883d36aa4b@thegoodpenguin.co.uk> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260630-deprecate_boot_delay-v2-2-f9883d36aa4b@thegoodpenguin.co.uk> On Tue 2026-06-30 17:35:58, Andrew Murray wrote: > The boot_delay (BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY) kernel parameter and printk_delay sysctl > are two distinct mechanisms for providing similar functionality which add a > delay prior to each printed printk message. > > boot_delay provides a kernel parameter for delaying printk output from > kernel start through to boot (SYSTEM_RUNNING), whereas printk_delay is > configurable only via sysctl and thus is only used post boot. > > Let's deprecate the boot_delay feature in favour of printk_delay. In order > to preserve functionality, we'll also extend printk_delay such that it can > additionally configured via an early kernel parameter. > > Behavior change: > > The delay enabled by both "boot_delay" and "printk_delay" continues > working even in SYSTEM_RUNNING state. It must be explicitly stopped > by setting printk_delay=0 via sysctl. > > The delay is skipped when the message is suppressed in all system > states. It used to skipped only for the boot_delay. > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray Looks good to me: Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Note that Sashiko AI warns about possible problems with negative printk_delay values, see https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260630-deprecate_boot_delay-v2-0-f9883d36aa4b%40thegoodpenguin.co.uk But they should be handled in both the early parameter and sysctl interface by the "10 * 1000" and "&ten_thousand" limits. The only potential problem might be a warning about possible "sign" mismatch from the compiler. But I do not see any even with make W=2. Best Regards, Petr