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From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
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        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
        John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Docs: printk: add 'console=null|""' to admin/kernel-parameters
Date:   Mon, 14 Feb 2022 16:56:15 -0800
Message-Id: <20220215005615.11244-1-rdunlap@infradead.org>
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Tell about 'console=null|""' and how to use it.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- linux-next-20220214.orig/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ linux-next-20220214/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -724,6 +724,12 @@
 		hvc<n>	Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
 			both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
 
+		{ null | "" }
+			Use to disable console output, i.e., to have kernel
+			console messages discarded.
+			This must be the first (or only) console= string
+			used on the kernel command line.
+
 		If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
 		device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
 			console=brl,ttyS0