Re: Wait for console to become available, v3.2

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, David VomLehn wrote:
> 
> What in the world are users going to do when they see a message about
> output being lost? There is no way to recover the data and no way to
> prevent it in the future. I don't think this is a good approach.

Sure there is. The console messages are saved too, so doing 'dmesg' will 
get you all the data that was generated before the console went on-line.

We _already_ lose data in that sense (although we could replay it for the 
first console connected - maybe we even do, I'm too lazy to check).

			Linus
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