Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:45:40 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ignore ,keep for efi earlyprintk |
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* Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> wrote:
> earlyprint=efi,keep results a kernel hang after "Freeing unused kernel memory"
That's a bug.
> > Actually efi earlyprintk is using __init functions such as early_ioremap etc. > Thus efi earlyconsole can not be kept. > > So just ignore it and give out a warning to user.
So, bugs should be fixed, not worked around.
earlyprintk=,keep is really useful for the occasional difficult low level bug in the printk code or similar, because earlyprintk is a completely separate code path from printk().
Thanks,
Ingo
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