Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758157Ab3D2Mu3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:50:29 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f182.google.com ([209.85.217.182]:40584 "EHLO mail-lb0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757404Ab3D2Mu2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:50:28 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <336C59AA-D5D7-472E-A8DA-EEB413DD6C68@suse.de> References: <1366974299-17877-1-git-send-email-pranavkumar@linaro.org> <87obcyc9sh.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <336C59AA-D5D7-472E-A8DA-EEB413DD6C68@suse.de> From: Peter Maydell Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:50:07 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Early printk support for virtio console devices. To: Alexander Graf Cc: Rusty Russell , Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org" , "patches@linaro.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List" , "kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 701 Lines: 16 On 29 April 2013 13:22, Alexander Graf wrote: > Oh, and it should default to off. That would be a pretty unhelpful default. We should default things so that console output from the kernel is available as early as reasonably possible by default IMHO -- this reduces the number of "nothing happens" user complaints where you then have to explain how to enable early printk so you can get some actual information about what happened. -- PMM -- 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/