Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757420Ab3D2MyA (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:54:00 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:43476 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752038Ab3D2Mx7 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:53:59 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Early printk support for virtio console devices. Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1278) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Alexander Graf In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:53:58 +0200 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-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <9DCAE29E-A113-4E74-A663-1AB224AD97E0@suse.de> References: <1366974299-17877-1-git-send-email-pranavkumar@linaro.org> <87obcyc9sh.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <336C59AA-D5D7-472E-A8DA-EEB413DD6C68@suse.de> To: Peter Maydell X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1278) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 852 Lines: 23 On 29.04.2013, at 14:50, Peter Maydell wrote: > 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. Users complaining that they only see half of their kernel log are even worse IMHO :) Alex -- 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/