Dear Wolfgang Denk
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de 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.
Sure! This is the message I'm referring to: http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-October/106255.html. I know it was a long time ago--I got a bit sidetracked for a while. Specifically, I offered to provide a very simple version of fixup_silent_linux() that just fixed the buffer overrun and you said "Please consider it NAKed".
"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?
Please see doc/README.silent in part 1 of this patchset for a sample script.
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?
This change doesn't remove any functionality but instead deprecates it and provides a path for boards to move forward to a non-deprecated solution. The non-deprecated solution is documented in doc/README.silent.