Dear Doug Anderson,
In message <CAD=FV=w+gerkz2lceuoyrswgvfg2qx9esh3rjjvj7kq6tjd...@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
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