>>>>> "maciej" == Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl> writes: maciej> 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. maciej> So you need to explicitly configure it? That's very bad. You bet: - you force everybody to use early_printk (you only want it for debugging). - you configure early_printk for everybody (never have to configure it). You can't have the cake and eat it :( Why do you ever will want not to use early_printk? when you are using a console that is not the prom console (why do you want to do that on MIPS is a misterios to me), but for other archs/machines it make sense: think on a machine that you now it boots to use a network console. Later, Juan. -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy
