[PATCH 1/3] kexec: get rid of late printk

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Sun Sep 8 16:11:40 EDT 2013


On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Markus Trippelsdorf
<markus at trippelsdorf.de> wrote:
> kexec calls:
>  printk(KERN_EMERG "Starting new kernel\n");
> late before calling machine_shutdown().
> However at this point the underlying fb device may have already been
> shutdown. This causes the kernel to hang.
> Fix by simply getting rid of the printk call.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus at trippelsdorf.de>

Shouldn't this be taken care of with the suspend/resume_console calls?
At least that's my understanding how it works in the suspend/hibernate
code, maybe kexec needs similar treatment ...
-Daniel
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