On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 4:42 AM Petr Mladek <pmla...@suse.com> wrote: > > Users use various undocumented ways how to completely disable > console output. It is usually done by passing an invalid console > name, for example, console="", console=null. > > It mostly works but just by chance.
Honestly, since that 'console=""' seems to be out in the wild, I think we might as well just (a) document it, and (b) make sure it works by more than chance. That said, I also like John Ogness' suggestion to have it as a per-console option to mute a particular console. At least that seems like a perfectly fine extension. I don't really see the point of a whole new "mute_console" option, considering that people already figured out an alternate way to do it that we'd have to support going forward anyway. Just make that the standard. Linus