Re: serial console

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On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 09:24:23AM +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> On 5/17/05, Matt Mackall <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 04:37:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > It would be nicer if this was a static inline, so all the function call
> > > code at the callsites is removed by the compiler.
> > 
> > Better yet, a patch that's actually right. add_preferred_console is
> > setting the console used by init and so on, so it's still relevant
> > with CONFIG_PRINTK off. So I just move it out of the ifdef. Obviously
> > more correct(tm).
> > 
> > Move add_preferred_console out of CONFIG_PRINTK so serial console does
> > the right thing.
> 
> 
> What's the purpose of serial console if printk is disabled?  I suggest
> we put add_preferred_console and all its callers, console code etc
> into CONFIG_PRINTK.

Serial console is currently two things: where to write kernel
messages, and the terminal init is attached to.

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