[PATCH v2] console: Replace #if 1 with a bool to ignore

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Thursday, July 12, 2018 09:29:38 AM Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt at goodmis.org>
> 
> There's been discussion on the fb list about the addition of
> WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() inside the fb code. The complaint is that when
> the fb module is loaded with lockless_register_fb the console lock is
> not taken for debugging reasons. With the addition of
> WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCK() within the fb code, this causes the console to
> fill up with warnings when trying to debug the fb driver.
> 
> There's also a #if 1 that enables the warning which was added before
> git history, and we look down on constant #if's in the kernel nowadays
> anyway.
> 
> Remove the #if 1 and add a ignore_console_lock_warning boolean that can
> be set by drivers to ignore the warning in order to do debugging.
> 
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/717e6337-e7a6-7a92-1c1b-8929a25696b5@suse.de
> Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt at goodmis.org>

Patch queued for 4.19, thanks.

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics