From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:50:31 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] bootm: Move silencing of linux console to deprecated config option. In-Reply-To: <1326223018-12441-3-git-send-email-dianders@chromium.org> References: <1326223018-12441-1-git-send-email-dianders@chromium.org> <1326223018-12441-3-git-send-email-dianders@chromium.org> Message-ID: <20120110195031.AFEC81167AAA@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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 -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating pro- grammer errors is at best dangerous. - Bjarne Stroustrup in "The C++ Programming Language"