From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756398AbaDXOA6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2014 10:00:58 -0400 Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:57222 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753259AbaDXOA4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2014 10:00:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 15:00:43 +0100 From: One Thousand Gnomes To: Jiri Kosina Cc: Andrew Morton , Jan Kara , LKML , pmladek@suse.cz, Frederic Weisbecker , Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] printk: Add config option for disabling printk offloading Message-ID: <20140424150043.13587920@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <1395770101-24534-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <1395770101-24534-9-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <20140326172332.5f1e1bfb@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> <20140326192815.GC18118@quack.suse.cz> <20140418115438.1e65e07af17e3ba6d7c554db@linux-foundation.org> <20140422112259.5f106a44@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> <20140423110847.GB17824@quack.suse.cz> <20140423111750.88ad799bb271a1fe0bed119f@linux-foundation.org> <20140423221609.0d3b536f@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> Organization: Intel Corporation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.20; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 23:41:59 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > > > Given this all only affects huge boxes and the only fix we have right > > now is hideously ugly I'd rather it stayed in the vendor hacks to their > > trees, until someone is inspired to sort it properly. > > I have to say I am rather disappointed by this statement, indirectly > implying that vanilla kernel doesn't care about booting properly on huge > boxes. You read what you like into it, but don't imply that I don't care about big boxes. It's a corner case. We shouldn't muck the rest of the system up by botchfixing for a corner case. It's not a regression. Find a clean fix for it and it's different, but the clean fix seems to be involve getting a chunk of the continuing tty into tty_port work done. Alan