[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] bootm: Move silencing of linux console to deprecated config option.

Wolfgang Denk
2012-01-10T19:50:31Z

Dear Doug Anderson,

In message <1326223018-12441-3-git-send-email-dianders@chromium.org> you wrote:
> If you would like the old behavior of having bootm modify the bootargs
> to silence the linux console when CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE is defined,
> you now need to define the config CONFIG_DEPRECATED_SILENT_LINUX_CONSOLE.
> A previous change already added this new config to all known users of
> CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE.
...
> When CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE is defined, all console
> - messages (by U-Boot and Linux!) can be silenced with
> - the "silent" environment variable. See
> - doc/README.silent for more information.
> + messages can be silenced with the "silent" environment
> + variable. See doc/README.silent for more information.

The "silent" environment variable changes only the U-Boot behaviour.

How do you silence Linux when you do not change the boot arguments?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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