From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932484Ab3CPPIp (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:08:45 -0400 Received: from www17.your-server.de ([213.133.104.17]:42165 "EHLO www17.your-server.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755572Ab3CPPIo (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:08:44 -0400 Message-ID: <1363446518.12329.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Subject: Re: CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK From: Thomas Meyer To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:08:38 +0100 In-Reply-To: <5140D9DF.4010506@infradead.org> References: <1363194921.1218.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <5140D9DF.4010506@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.4 (3.6.4-2.fc18) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-Sender: thomas@m3y3r.de Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Mittwoch, den 13.03.2013, 12:56 -0700 schrieb Randy Dunlap: > On 03/13/13 10:15, Thomas Meyer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > -*- Early printk > > > > help text says: > > "You should normally N here, unless you want to debug such a crash. > > (Depends on: EXPERT [=n])" > > > > How to normally N here? > > You'll have to enable CONFIG_EXPERT and then you can disable EARLY_PRINTK. > > You may even have to disable CONFIG_EMBEDDED before you can enable > CONFIG_EXPERT (I did). > > Too many hoops to have to jump through. :( > Yes, so why not do this? As the text to EARLY_PRINTK explains? diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug index b322f12..d6c2d89 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ config X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP config EARLY_PRINTK bool "Early printk" if EXPERT - default y + default n ---help--- Write kernel log output directly into the VGA buffer or to a serial port.