Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/2] Deprecate Linux bootargs munging with CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE.

Dear Doug Anderson,

In message 1326231380-30128-1-git-send-email-dianders@chromium.org you wrote:

As discussed previously on the U-Boot mailing list (see comments on "Fix fixup_silent_linux() buffer overrun" patchset), relying on

Please provide a link.

"bootm" to mangle the Linux bootargs is not a suggested way to go.

So what is "a suggested way to go" to silence the Linux kenrel messages?

We now officially deprecate it and provide a way to avoid it (but still get the other CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE behavior).

You are removing functionality that is in active use by a number of boards, without providing any replacement, i. e. you are breaking a number of boards.

Do you think this is a good idea?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk