On 5/17/05, Matt Mackall <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
For init, console_setup should be moved out of ifdef too, imho.
--
Coywolf Qi Hunt
http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/
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