Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755894Ab3CPRi0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:38:26 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:52450 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751920Ab3CPRiZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:38:25 -0400 Message-ID: <5144AE20.7030202@infradead.org> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:38:40 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130215 Thunderbird/17.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Meyer CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK References: <1363194921.1218.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <5140D9DF.4010506@infradead.org> <1363446518.12329.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1363446518.12329.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1503 Lines: 59 On 03/16/13 08:08, Thomas Meyer wrote: > 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? Yes, the default should match the help text. Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Please resend your patch with Signed-off-by: line. Thanks. > > 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. > > > -- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/