[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/2] Deprecate Linux bootargs munging with CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE.

Wolfgang Denk
2012-01-10T22:48:33Z

Dear Doug Anderson,

In message <CAD=FV=W+GErKZ2LCeUoYrsWgVFg2QX9EsH3rjJvj7KQ6tjdbVA@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> > Please provide a link.
>
> Sure! This is the message I'm referring to:
> <http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-October/106255.html>. I

You should do so in the commit mesage (but judging from my current
state of mind you can save the efforts for a v4).

> know it was a long time ago--I got a bit sidetracked for a while.
> Specifically, I offered to provide a very simple version of
> fixup_silent_linux() that just fixed the buffer overrun and you said
> "Please consider it NAKed".

I just replied to one of your earlier patches that did not fix the
overflow, but just shifted it to happen later, in Linux.
>
> >> "bootm" to mangle the Linux bootargs is not a suggested way to go.
> >
> > So what is "a suggested way to go" to silence the Linux kenrel
> > messages?
>
> Please see doc/README.silent in part 1 of this patchset for a sample script.

But this does the very same, just in a different way (requiring more
code). And it does not prevent the overflow at all.

> This change doesn't remove any functionality but instead deprecates it
> and provides a path for boards to move forward to a non-deprecated
> solution. The non-deprecated solution is documented in
> doc/README.silent.

Your suggestion does not solve anything.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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