From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752072AbZH0Tez (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:34:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751849AbZH0Tey (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:34:54 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:47754 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751061AbZH0Tey (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:34:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:34:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Anirban Sinha cc: Randy Dunlap , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: [PATCH] console_print: change the function api to make it have printk style interface In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20090825172640.af8b9f58.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Anirban Sinha wrote: > > Since Linus has already agreed for the later, I will post a patch here > to remove the function. I am not very certain as to what we should do > about the only one single case of its genuine use - call from > ia64/head.S. What I have done is one solution. Please feel free to > debate/disagree. Looks ok to me, but I'm not going to apply it in late -rc, since it doesn't really fix any bug. Feel free to re-send after 2.6.31 is out, or try to get it into one of the trees to be merged later. Linus