From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751334AbWERKH0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 May 2006 06:07:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751335AbWERKH0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 May 2006 06:07:26 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:420 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751334AbWERKH0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 May 2006 06:07:26 -0400 Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 03:07:19 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: michael@ellerman.id.au Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Make printk work for really early debugging Message-Id: <20060518030719.14995317.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1147946150.7360.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060518091410.CC527679F4@ozlabs.org> <20060518023449.4e697b96.akpm@osdl.org> <1147946150.7360.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michael Ellerman wrote: > > I'll trawl through the console drivers tomorrow and see if I can guess > what percentage look like they will/won't work, then we can decide which > way to flip it. Yes, that's probably safer and saner, thanks. Don't bust a gut over it though - it's not your problem and if someone's hurting from it then they can write and test the patch. I guess many people are using earlyprintk or console=uart..