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From: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@suse.com>,
	Naveen Kumar Chaudhary <naveen.osdev@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 13/16] printk: Try to register each console as Braille first
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:17:42 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <auLzFtLAUEYKvXIO@chrisdown.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260929120546.328616-14-pmladek@suse.com>

Petr Mladek writes:
>Braille consoles are unique: they can only be enabled via the command
>line and use the preferred console framework for initialization, yet
>they are never added to the console_list or associated with
>/dev/console. Because of this, the preferred_console variable remains
>unset when only a Braille console is requested.

This also changes what happens when the same driver is wanted both ways, which 
might be worth a sentence in the commit message.

For example:

    console=ttyS1 console=brl,ttyS0

Here we used to end up with ttyS1 as a normal console and the Braille request 
was silently ignored. Now ttyS0 becomes the Braille console, and every later 
register_console() from serial core goes to the Braille round and gets -ENODEV 
from braille_register_console(), so there is no serial console at all.

I think this is probably fine, but just needs clarifying in the commit message.

>+		 * @try_only_braille and @user_specifified define which

-> @user_specified

>@@ -4033,6 +4061,24 @@ static int try_enable_console(struct console *newcon)
> {
> 	int err;
> 
>+	/*
>+	 * First, try to enable the console driver as a Braille console.
>+	 * It would have metadata in the preferred_consoles[] array.
>+	 * But it won't be counted as @preferred_console because

"@preferred_console" is preferred_dev_console now, and it is a variable rather 
than a parameter, so no "@".

With those:

Acked-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>

Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2026-10-29  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-29 12:05 [PATCH v5 00/16] printk: Clean up preferred console handling Petr Mladek
2026-09-29 12:05 ` [PATCH v5 01/16] printk: Rename struct console_cmdline to preferred_console Petr Mladek
2026-10-29  7:03   ` Chris Down
2026-09-29 12:05 ` [PATCH v5 02/16] printk: Rename preferred_console to preferred_dev_console Petr Mladek
2026-09-29 12:05 ` [PATCH v5 03/16] printk: Cleanup _braille_(un)register_console() wrappers Petr Mladek
2026-09-29 12:05 ` [PATCH v5 04/16] printk: Separate code for adding/updating preferred console metadata Petr Mladek
2026-10-27 12:05   ` John Ogness
2026-10-29  7:05   ` Chris Down
2026-09-29 12:05 ` [PATCH v5 05/16] printk: Prefer the console either via name or devname exclusively Petr Mladek
2026-10-27 12:14   ` John Ogness
2026-10-29  7:06   ` Chris Down
2026-09-29 12:05 ` [PATCH v5 06/16] printk: Check that index is not defined when a console is preferred via devname Petr Mladek
2026-10-27 18:08   ` John Ogness
2026-10-29  7:07   ` Chris Down
2026-09-29 12:05 ` [PATCH v5 07/16] printk: Ensure consistent name and devname when updating preferred console Petr Mladek
2026-10-29  7:09   ` Chris Down
2026-09-29 12:05 ` [PATCH v5 08/16] printk: Do not quietly ignore adding entry for a preferred console when there is no space Petr Mladek
2026-10-29  7:10   ` Chris Down
2026-10-29 16:23   ` John Ogness
2026-09-29 12:05 ` [PATCH v5 09/16] printk: Allow to override options via the command line Petr Mladek
2026-10-29  7:13   ` Chris Down
2026-09-29 12:05 ` [PATCH v5 10/16] printk: Allow to debug misuse of add_or_update_preferred_console() Petr Mladek
2026-10-29  7:13   ` Chris Down
2026-09-29 12:05 ` [PATCH v5 11/16] console/braille: Lock console->setup() call during the registration Petr Mladek
2026-10-29  7:15   ` Chris Down
2026-09-29 12:05 ` [PATCH v5 12/16] printk: Separate code for enabling console Petr Mladek
2026-10-29  7:15   ` Chris Down
2026-09-29 12:05 ` [PATCH v5 13/16] printk: Try to register each console as Braille first Petr Mladek
2026-10-29  7:17   ` Chris Down [this message]
2026-09-29 12:05 ` [PATCH v5 14/16] printk: Do not set Braille console as preferred_console Petr Mladek
2026-10-29  7:19   ` Chris Down
2026-09-29 12:05 ` [PATCH v5 15/16] printk: Modify try_enable_default_console() to return error/success Petr Mladek
2026-10-29  7:20   ` Chris Down
2026-09-29 12:05 ` [PATCH v5 16/16] printk: Try enable preferred consoles only when there are any Petr Mladek
2026-10-29  7:20   ` Chris Down

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