Re: [PATCH] kill prom_printf

[Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:16:12PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Ladislav Michl wrote:
> 
> > >  Well, I would see early_printk() as advantageous if it was also capable
> > > to leave messages in the kernel ring buffer for dmesg or klogd to fetch. 
> > 
> > Ah, we probably don't understand each other. I should type EARLY_PRINTK
> > instead of early_printk (sorry for my lazyness, I'm usually typing in
> > lowercase). CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK enables early console, you are supposed to
> > use printk everywhere and that way you achieve such functionality.
> 
>  So you need to explicitly configure it?  That's very bad.

I think we can leave it enabled by default, since it doesn't hurt too much.
Kernel cmdline argument could control usage of early console.

        ladis