On 03/16/2015 02:12 PM, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 16-03-15 18:49, Peter Hurley wrote: >> Hi Hans, >> >> On 03/16/2015 12:31 PM, Hans de Goede wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> While updating my local working tree to 4.0-rc4 this morning I noticed that >>> I no longer >>> get console / kernel messages output on the hdmi output of my ARM board / >>> on tty0 >>> >>> This is caused by: >>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/of?id=2fa645cb2703d9b3786d850db815414dfeefa51d >>> >>> Reverting this commit fixes this for me. >>> >>> What is happening here is that the "add_preferred_console("stdout-path", 0, >>> NULL);" >>> happens before the tty0 registers stopping tty0 from becoming part of the >>> console list >>> since there already is a preferred console at that time. >>> >>> This is an undesirable behavior change caused by the commit in question, on >>> boards >>> where there is both video output, and a serial console configured through >>> stdout-path >>> we want to have console output on both as we do not know which of the 2 >>> will actually >>> be hooked up by the user. >> >> I don't see this as a regression, but rather a misconfiguration. > > As said it is an undesirable behavior change, whether you want to call that a > regression > or not is not all that interesting. Fixing it however is important, as e.g. > Fedora > ARM images rely on this behavior, both "regular" arm as well as aarch64.
What dts file is causing this problem? Is it in mainline or distributed only in Fedora? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
