[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] config: Add CONFIG_DEPRECATED_SILENT_LINUX_CONSOLE

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Jan 10 20:46:45 CET 2012


Dear Doug Anderson,

In message <1326223018-12441-2-git-send-email-dianders at chromium.org> you wrote:
> I have set this config option based on the existing usage of
> CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE.  This is to support a future change
> deprecating the silencing of the linux console in bootm by
> having bootm modify the linux command-line arguments.
...

> --- a/include/configs/KUP4K.h
> +++ b/include/configs/KUP4K.h
> @@ -502,6 +502,9 @@
>  #define CONFIG_SYS_DEVICE_NULLDEV	1       /* enble null device		*/
>  #define CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE		1
>  
> +/* Added based on usage of CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE; please remove when possible */
> +#define CONFIG_DEPRECATED_SILENT_LINUX_CONSOLE 1

And can you please place this new #define not somewhere in the middle
of the file, but instead very close (immendiately preceeding or
following lines) to the CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE definition.


Hm...actually - why do we need both now?  This is ugly and makes
little sense to me.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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