Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:10:24 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernel/printk: do not turn off bootconsole in printk_late_init if keep_bootcon |
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On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 17:02:33 -0700 Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> It seems that commit 7bf693951a8e5f7e600a45b74d91d962a453146e doesn't > always achieve what it aims, as printk_late_init() runs it > unconditionally turns off all boot consoles. With this patch, I am able > to see more messages on the boot console in KVM guests than I can > without, when keep_bootcon is specified. > > Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> > Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> > Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> > Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
The patch is applicable to 2.6.39.x and to 3.0.x but I'm unable to work out if the end-user impact is sufficiently serious to warrant backporting the fix into those kernels.
Please let us know you opinion on this.
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