Re: Early printk behaviour

On Fri 17 Aug 2007 03:49, Gerd Hoffmann pondered: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> Hmm, sort of, although I didn't think about the case of no real console > >> replacing the early console. The intention of the patch is to have a > >> smooth handover from the boot console to the real console. And, yes

Re: Early printk behaviour

On Fri 17 Aug 2007 17:09, Mike Frysinger pondered: > On 8/17/07, Robin Getz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Something like: > > > > Index: kernel/printk.c > > === > > --- kernel/printk.

Re: [PATCH 02/12] Blackfin arch: Add label to call new GPIO API

On Fri 17 Aug 2007 14:24, David Brownell pondered: > Just for the record, this is an unusual way to use these calls. That is part of the natural evolution of the kernel isn't it - per James's keynote at OLS - you release something, and see how people [ab]use it until it either grows, evolves, or

Re: [PATCH 01/12] Blackfin arch: add peripheral resource allocation support

On Fri 17 Aug 2007 17:10, David Brownell pondered: > On the other hand, maybe you want your "typical" customer to > be more of a systems integrator than anything else. We are getting yelled at by our customers (I was on the phone yesterday), because the kernel build environment we distribute (the

Re: [draft] Blackfin Early Printk implmentation

On Sat 18 Aug 2007 02:23, Sam Ravnborg pondered: > > > What was preventing you from just using the x86_64 code here? > > > > Some was borrowed - but not much. since we don't support vga, or > > 16550 UARTs (Blackfin has it's own on-chip UART), I don't think > > this would work. Everyone impleme

Re: [PATCH 02/12] Blackfin arch: Add label to call new GPIO API

On Fri 17 Aug 2007 18:34, David Brownell pondered: > On Friday 17 August 2007, Robin Getz wrote: > > On Fri 17 Aug 2007 14:24, David Brownell pondered: > > > Just for the record, this is an unusual way to use these calls. > > > > That is part of the natural evolutio

Re: [PATCH 02/12] Blackfin arch: Add label to call new GPIO API

On Sun 19 Aug 2007 17:54, David Brownell pondered: > On Saturday 18 August 2007, Robin Getz wrote: > > > I don't see how early/late makes the problem easier/worse to debug. No > > matter when you do it - the driver refuses to install (or at least > > should). >

[PATCH 1/1] ensure we don't use bootconsoles after init has been released

From: Robin Getz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a followup to the cleanups for earlyprintk patch from Gerd Hoffmann http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=69331af79cf29e26d1231152a172a1a10c2df511 This ensures that a bootconsole is unregistered if it

Re: [PATCH 1/1] ensure we don't use bootconsoles after init has been released

From: Robin Getz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a followup to the cleanups for earlyprintk patch from Gerd Hoffmann http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=69331af79cf29e26d1231152a172a1a10c2df511 This ensures that a bootconsole is unregistered if it

Re: [PATCH 1/1] ensure we don't use bootconsoles after init has been released

Try #3... From: Robin Getz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a followup to the cleanups for earlyprintk patch from Gerd Hoffmann http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=69331af79cf29e26d1231152a172a1a10c2df511 This ensures that a bootconsole is unregiste

Re: [PATCH 1/1] ensure we don't use bootconsoles after init has been released

Try #4... (sorry) From: Robin Getz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a followup to the cleanups for earlyprintk patch from Gerd Hoffmann http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=69331af79cf29e26d1231152a172a1a10c2df511 This ensures that a bootcons

[PATCH 1/1] fix - ensure we don't use bootconsoles after init has been released

From: Robin Getz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gerd Hoffmann pointed out that my patch from yesterday can lead to a null pointer dereference if the kernel is booted with no console, and no earlyprintk defined. This fixes that issue. printk.c | 10 ++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions

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