Re: Change of behaviour when console=null and ttynull driver is used

[Guenter Roeck]

On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 04:20:16PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 8:08 AM Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I need an advice whether to revert the commit 3cffa06aeef7ece30f
> > ("printk/console: Allow to disable console output by using
> > console="" or console=null").
> 
> I think it's too late to revert it by now. It sounds like people who
> were affected are either chrome developers that already changed their
> setup, or embedded people who similarly have already reacted to it.
> 

Autually, our (non-)solution was to revert the patches in question in
all ChromeOS branches.

> This went into 5.11, it's ancient history by now, so reverting it
> would likely just cause more issues.
> 
Agreed. Maybe we'll find a better solution at some point, but for now
we'll just keep the reverts in ChromeOS.

Guenter