Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 22:55:12 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Make sure linux_banner is the first message in
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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 19:35:16 -0700

> For scripting it is important to have a consistent header that tells
> where the kernel log starts. At least to me it always seemed that
> linux_banner served this purpose.

Your change will not achieve this goal, many architectures
print things long before control passes to init/main.c
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