From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] x86: clean up early_printk output
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 01:22:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602250124_MC3-1-B940-4AED@compuserve.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602250529.11099.ak@suse.de>
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 at 05:29:10 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> early_printk is designed to do absolutely minimal work to get the
> message out. Your patch adds too much potential disturbance
> imho.
You're kidding... right?
early_printk copies the entire screen up, line-by-line, in order to do
scrolling, then blanks the bottom line using the exact code I used to
clear to EOL. How can that be OK if my fix isn't?
--
Chuck
"Equations are the Devil's sentences." --Stephen Colbert
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2006-02-25 6:22 Chuck Ebbert [this message]
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2006-02-25 0:07 Chuck Ebbert
2006-02-25 2:07 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-25 4:29 ` Andi Kleen
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