From 4c30c6f566c0989ddaee3407da44751e340a63ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nishanth Aravamudan Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:59:11 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] kernel/printk: do not turn off bootconsole in printk_late_init() if keep_bootcon It seems that 7bf693951a8e ("console: allow to retain boot console via boot option keep_bootcon") doesn't always achieve what it aims, as when printk_late_init() runs it unconditionally turns off all boot consoles. With this patch, I am able to see more messages on the boot console in KVM guests than I can without, when keep_bootcon is specified. I think it is appropriate for the relevant -stable trees. However, it's more of an annoyance than a serious bug (ideally you don't need to keep the boot console around as console handover should be working -- I was encountering a situation where the console handover wasn't working and not having the boot console available meant I couldn't see why). Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Alan Cox Cc: Greg KH Acked-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto Cc: [2.6.39.x, 3.0.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/printk.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index 836a2ae0ac31..28a40d8171b8 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -1604,7 +1604,7 @@ static int __init printk_late_init(void) struct console *con; for_each_console(con) { - if (con->flags & CON_BOOT) { + if (!keep_bootcon && con->flags & CON_BOOT) { printk(KERN_INFO "turn off boot console %s%d\n", con->name, con->index); unregister_console(con); -- 2.20.1