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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: David VomLehn <dvomlehn@cisco.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux USB Mailing List <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Embedded Mailing List <linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Wait for console to become available, v3.2
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:37:41 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904211036140.2199@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090421172929.GC8251@cuplxvomd02.corp.sa.net>



On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, David VomLehn wrote:
> 
> What in the world are users going to do when they see a message about
> output being lost? There is no way to recover the data and no way to
> prevent it in the future. I don't think this is a good approach.

Sure there is. The console messages are saved too, so doing 'dmesg' will 
get you all the data that was generated before the console went on-line.

We _already_ lose data in that sense (although we could replay it for the 
first console connected - maybe we even do, I'm too lazy to check).

			Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-21 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-20 23:40 Wait for console to become available, v3.2 David VomLehn
2009-04-21  6:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-21  7:13   ` David Brownell
2009-04-21  8:03     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-21 17:11     ` David Woodhouse
2009-04-21 17:29       ` David VomLehn
2009-04-21 17:37         ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2009-04-21 17:59           ` David VomLehn
2009-04-21 17:41         ` David Woodhouse
2009-04-21 17:31       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-21 19:25         ` Alan Cox
2009-04-21 23:17           ` David VomLehn
2009-04-22  8:25         ` Jamie Lokier
2009-04-22  9:11           ` Alan Cox
2009-04-22 10:39             ` Jamie Lokier
2009-04-21 13:35   ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-04-21 13:50     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-21 14:05       ` Jamie Lokier
2009-04-21 14:26         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-21 14:37           ` Alan Cox
2009-04-22  8:22             ` Jamie Lokier
2009-04-22  9:13               ` Alan Cox
2009-04-21 16:42           ` David VomLehn
2009-04-21 14:36         ` Alan Stern
2009-04-21 16:52           ` David VomLehn
2009-04-21 19:09             ` Alan Stern
2009-04-21 23:08               ` David VomLehn
2009-04-22 15:40                 ` Alan Stern
2009-04-22 20:54                   ` David VomLehn
2009-04-22 21:08                     ` Alan Cox
2009-04-22 21:24                       ` Alan Stern
2009-04-24  0:35                         ` David VomLehn
2009-04-24 19:20                           ` Alan Stern
2009-04-24 21:32                             ` David VomLehn
2009-04-24 22:19                               ` Jamie Lokier
2009-04-24 23:10                                 ` David VomLehn
2009-04-25  1:41                                   ` Jamie Lokier
2009-04-25  3:11                                     ` Alan Stern
2009-04-26 19:52                                       ` Jamie Lokier
2009-04-26 21:20                                         ` Alan Stern
2009-04-26 21:37                                           ` Jamie Lokier
2009-04-26 22:36                                             ` Kay Sievers
2009-04-26 23:12                                               ` Jamie Lokier
2009-04-26 23:23                                                 ` Kay Sievers
2009-04-26 23:46                                                   ` Jamie Lokier
2009-04-26 17:55                                     ` David VomLehn
2009-04-22  5:35               ` David VomLehn

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