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
