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

Doug Anderson
2012-01-10T22:39:51Z

Dear Wolfgang Denk

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:
>> As discussed previously on the U-Boot mailing list (see comments on
>> "Fix fixup_silent_linux() buffer overrun" patchset), relying on
>
> 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
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".

>> "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.

> You are removing functionality that is in active use by a number of
> boards, without providing any replacement, i. e. you are breaking a
> number of boards.
>
> Do you think this is a good idea?

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.