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| author | Dima Zavin <dima@android.com> | 2011-08-23 15:56:50 -0700 |
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| committer | Dan Willemsen <dwillemsen@nvidia.com> | 2011-11-30 21:39:01 -0800 |
| commit | fdacc7f75c90db69156d975a803699728aeb4b11 (patch) | |
| tree | f42af1deda4729ddc27b16fb9984af52390c6558 /arch/arm/Kconfig | |
| parent | 04592720eadd04f45244bc5c74ca1949471be991 (diff) | |
ARM: add option to flush console before reboot
If the console_lock was held while the system was rebooted, the messages
in the temporary logbuffer would not have propogated to all the console
drivers.
This force releases the console lock if it failed to be acquired.
Change-Id: I193dcf7b968be17966833e50b8b8bc70d5d9fe89
Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin <dima@android.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/Kconfig | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig index 3146ed3f6eca..817a88494bb8 100644 --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig @@ -1733,6 +1733,15 @@ config DEPRECATED_PARAM_STRUCT This was deprecated in 2001 and announced to live on for 5 years. Some old boot loaders still use this way. +config ARM_FLUSH_CONSOLE_ON_RESTART + bool "Force flush the console on restart" + help + If the console is locked while the system is rebooted, the messages + in the temporary logbuffer would not have propogated to all the + console drivers. This option forces the console lock to be + released if it failed to be acquired, which will cause all the + pending messages to be flushed. + endmenu menu "Boot options" |