Dear Doug Anderson,
In message CAD=FV=W+GErKZ2LCeUoYrsWgVFg2QX9EsH3rjJvj7KQ6tjdbVA@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
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
You should do so in the commit mesage (but judging from my current state of mind you can save the efforts for a v4).
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".
I just replied to one of your earlier patches that did not fix the overflow, but just shifted it to happen later, in Linux.
"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.
But this does the very same, just in a different way (requiring more code). And it does not prevent the overflow at all.
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.
Your suggestion does not solve anything.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk