Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933217AbcKGS1v (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2016 13:27:51 -0500 Received: from mail-yw0-f181.google.com ([209.85.161.181]:33039 "EHLO mail-yw0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933033AbcKGS1u (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2016 13:27:50 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] console: use first console if stdout-path device doesn't appear To: Paul Burton References: <2c67e39b-fc33-918a-774e-d9238e837c03@lwfinger.net> <13471233.iqSeGS5aQ3@np-p-burton> <4f990791-ebff-dbe3-b923-3cac5fd6f97d@lwfinger.net> <2028257.UuvQgdciME@np-p-burton> Cc: Michael Ellerman , Sergey Senozhatsky , Andreas Schwab , Andrew Morton , Borislav Petkov , Petr Mladek , Tejun Heo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org From: Larry Finger Message-ID: <190a8a8f-228c-6992-393f-70afb3523810@lwfinger.net> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 12:27:32 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2028257.UuvQgdciME@np-p-burton> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1149 Lines: 35 On 11/07/2016 11:21 AM, Paul Burton wrote: > Hi Larry, > > On Monday, 7 November 2016 09:26:37 GMT Larry Finger wrote: >>> A revert was already submitted by Hans de Goede & is being discussed over >>> here: >>> >>> https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=147826151427455&w=2 >> >> I am a little surprised that I was not CCd on that thread. > > Hans started that thread without copying you just as you started your thread > without copying Andreas, who reported issues first. My searching had failed to find his report. >> To reiterate, my >> PowerBook G4 with a PPC32 processor CRASHES on boot. That is a lot more >> serious than the console output disappearing. > > Crashes as in init dies due to lack of a console, right? It gets a kernel panic because of an attempt to kill process 1 (init). It then waits 120 seconds and tries to reboot. >> As it seems unlikely that this regression will be fixed in the current >> cycle, I recommend that the reversion of commit 05fd007e4629 until a proper >> fix is available. > > I agree that reverting is probably the best option for now, and have replied > with that in the other thread too. Good. Larry