Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757462AbZDURoo (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:44:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757483AbZDURoV (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:44:21 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:37152 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755157AbZDURoT (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:44:19 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:37:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: David VomLehn cc: David Woodhouse , David Brownell , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Ingo Molnar , Arjan van de Ven , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux USB Mailing List , Linux Embedded Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Wait for console to become available, v3.2 In-Reply-To: <20090421172929.GC8251@cuplxvomd02.corp.sa.net> Message-ID: References: <20090420234006.GA1958@cuplxvomd02.corp.sa.net> <20090421064346.GB8020@elte.hu> <200904210013.48551.david-b@pacbell.net> <1240333871.3632.70.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20090421172929.GC8251@cuplxvomd02.corp.sa.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) 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: 804 Lines: 20 On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, David VomLehn wrote: > > What in the world are users going to do when they see a message about > output being lost? There is no way to recover the data and no way to > prevent it in the future. I don't think this is a good approach. Sure there is. The console messages are saved too, so doing 'dmesg' will get you all the data that was generated before the console went on-line. We _already_ lose data in that sense (although we could replay it for the first console connected - maybe we even do, I'm too lazy to check). Linus -- 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/