Re: [PATCH v2] vt: add init_hide parameter to suppress boot output

2013-02-21 Thread Andy Ross
I know I said the last words were my last, but this message and Pavel's gave me some vain hope that I might be able to win this one on the merits, so I'm trying again just to make the situation clear: On 02/20/2013 05:12 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: I don't see why this is even needed for surfa

Re: [PATCH v2] vt: add init_hide parameter to suppress boot output

2013-02-20 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 02:08:25PM -0800, Andy Ross wrote: > On 02/20/2013 12:57 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: > >I'm sure something creative can be done with fake init that shuts > >the console up then execs previous init. No need to add more kernel > >knobs, I'd say. > > Fair enough, but some last wor

Re: [PATCH v2] vt: add init_hide parameter to suppress boot output

2013-02-20 Thread Pavel Machek
On Wed 2013-02-20 14:08:25, Andy Ross wrote: > On 02/20/2013 12:57 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: > >I'm sure something creative can be done with fake init that shuts > >the console up then execs previous init. No need to add more kernel > >knobs, I'd say. > > Fair enough, but some last words: > > That'

Re: [PATCH v2] vt: add init_hide parameter to suppress boot output

2013-02-20 Thread Andy Ross
On 02/20/2013 12:57 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: I'm sure something creative can be done with fake init that shuts the console up then execs previous init. No need to add more kernel knobs, I'd say. Fair enough, but some last words: That's argument is the "it's about logging" hypothesis again. Eve

Re: [PATCH v2] vt: add init_hide parameter to suppress boot output

2013-02-20 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > How could there be any other users at startup, you "own" the system > > here, there should not be anyone to race with. > > Tell that to the display hardware. :) > > Seriously, every Linux box with a display (to first approximation, > obviously I didn't test them all while writing this me

Re: [PATCH v2] vt: add init_hide parameter to suppress boot output

2013-02-20 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 08:54:47AM -0800, Andy Ross wrote: > On 02/19/2013 08:45 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 08:04:05PM -0800, Andy Ross wrote: > > > There's a (sort of) similar commonly-used option, vga=current, which > > > prevents a mode switch for the special case

Re: [PATCH v2] vt: add init_hide parameter to suppress boot output

2013-02-20 Thread Andy Ross
On 02/19/2013 08:45 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 08:04:05PM -0800, Andy Ross wrote: > > There's a (sort of) similar commonly-used option, vga=current, which > > prevents a mode switch for the special case of VGA/vesa. But that > > doesn't work with the framebuffer conso

Re: [PATCH v2] vt: add init_hide parameter to suppress boot output

2013-02-19 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 08:04:05PM -0800, Andy Ross wrote: > On 02/19/2013 05:45 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >>When vt.init_hide is set, suppress output on newly created consoles > >>until an affirmative switched to that console. This prevents boot > >>output from displaying (and clobbering sp

Re: [PATCH v2] vt: add init_hide parameter to suppress boot output

2013-02-19 Thread Andy Ross
On 02/19/2013 05:45 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: When vt.init_hide is set, suppress output on newly created consoles until an affirmative switched to that console. This prevents boot output from displaying (and clobbering splash screens, etc...) without disabling the console entirely. What's

Re: [PATCH v2] vt: add init_hide parameter to suppress boot output

2013-02-19 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 05:53:44PM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > From: Andy Ross > > When vt.init_hide is set, suppress output on newly created consoles until > an affirmative switched to that console. This prevents boot output from > displaying (and clobbering splash screens, etc...) witho

[PATCH v2] vt: add init_hide parameter to suppress boot output

2013-02-19 Thread Kirill A. Shutemov
From: Andy Ross When vt.init_hide is set, suppress output on newly created consoles until an affirmative switched to that console. This prevents boot output from displaying (and clobbering splash screens, etc...) without disabling the console entirely. Signed-off-by: Andy Ross Signed-off-by: K