Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] VT locking

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jan 06 2004 - 16:59:50 EST


Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Andrew, the only bits of the kernel/printk.c that are supposed to get
> to your tree are related to is_console_locked() at this point. The
> force_printk_to_btext is a debug tool that allow to route all printk's
> to some early-boot output mecanism, though it would eventually be
> acceptable upstream with Geert's idea of arch_printk...

That's OK, it's just in there for a soak-test at present - this stuff is
quite a long way away, yes?

It's probably just easiest for you to work against current -bk, send me a
single rolled up patch whenever you have new things for people to test.
When we're happy with it all we can do a bk merge of everything.
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