[parisc-linux-cvs] 2.6.0-test5-pa0 cleanups

Michael Wood mwood@its.uct.ac.za
Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:58:10 +0200


On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:08:44PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 11:07:10PM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote:
[snip]
> > drivers/serial/Kconfig
> > 	CONFIG_PDC_CONSOLE depends on CONFIG_VT in order
> > 	to pick up console_driver global.
> 
> Yes, but I think your patch to the comment is wrong.
> 
> >  	  Saying Y here will enable the software based PDC console to be 
> >  	  used as the system console.  This is useful for machines in 
> > -	  which the hardware based console has not been written yet.  The
> > -	  following steps must be competed to use the PDC console:
> > +	  which the hardware based console has not been written yet or to
> > +	  enable console output before regular console device has started.
> > +	  The following steps must be competed to use the PDC console:
> 
> Enabling early console output is not done by CONFIG_PDC_CONSOLE but by
> changing
> #undef EARLY_BOOTUP_DEBUG
> to
> #define EARLY_BOOTUP_DEBUG
> in arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_cons.c (which is alwas compiled in, regardless
> of the setting of CONFIG_PDC_CONSOLE).

And it's "completed", not "competed" :)

-- 
Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>