On Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 10:20:53AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > In other words, a user should still be able to log into a VT and fbcon is > > still attached to an (DRM emulated) fbdev. The only difference is that the > > kernel messages are not going to the VT. > > This still seems like a big step back for anything not running a > graphical desktop, e.g. servers. No more kernel messages on the > standard console by default is IMHO not good. > > It'd be a lot better if this was runtime configurable (like a kernel > command-line option) rather than compile-time. Yeah. If we could make the choice on the kernel command line (e.g. by having drm.panic_screen automatically disable kmsg output to the console), then this change would be more palatable. There's just so many different and special ways in how people hook up console logging from VMs and other systems. Disabling VT_CONSOLE at compile time is hard to defend. Zbyszek -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
