* Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > >> The commit point to which the attached config and bootlog belongs is: > >> > >> 2.6.31-07863-gb64ada6 > >> > >> Reverting: > >> > >> c953094: early_printk: Allow more than one early console > >> > >> solves it. > >> > > > > btw., the boot options are: > > > > Command line: root=/dev/sda6 earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200 console=ttyS0,115200 debug > > initcall_debug apic=verbose sysrq_always_enabled ignore_loglevel > > selinux=0 nmi_watchdog=0 panic=1 3 > > > > > > AH HA! > > earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200 > > You are invoking the same device twice which is why you are having > infinite recursion. It was not obvious to me why the earlyprintk code > would allow "serial" or "ttyS", but perhaps we need to protect for > that? > > Your boot line should be: > > earlyprintk=serial,115200 > > OR > > earlyprintk=ttyS0,115200 ah, indeed! > The line you had there before would have been the equivalent of doing: > > earlyprintk=ttyS0,ttyS0,115200 > > Given this, do we still need to execute the revert your revert? Or > perhaps do we need to add some protection? I have such lines on other boxes too. I'd suggest to add protection if it's not too ugly - the typoed line worked and was pretty natural to do, and the failure mode is nasty enough. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html