Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756018AbZDSI0B (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:26:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752660AbZDSIZq (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:25:46 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:49931 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751237AbZDSIZo (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:25:44 -0400 To: VomLehn Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Linux Embedded Mailing List , Linux USB Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Wait for console to become available, v2 From: Andi Kleen References: <20090416190837.GA26734@cuplxvomd02.corp.sa.net> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:25:37 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20090416190837.GA26734@cuplxvomd02.corp.sa.net> (VomLehn's message of "Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:08:37 -0700") Message-ID: <874owlqcce.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 738 Lines: 21 VomLehn writes: > > History > v2 Wait for the preferred console rather than any console. Make the > delay interval a tunable. CONFIG tunables are usually a bad idea. What should a binary distribution kernel set? Better make it a boot option with a reasonable default. Also a setting to panic in this case might be useful, normally a system without console is not very useful and needs to be rebooted anyways. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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/