Early use of log() does not end up in kernel msg buffer

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <2033248.Eu3RHS8lTG at ralph.baldwin.cx>, John Baldwin writes:

>I think phk@ broke this back in 70239.  Before that the log() function did
>this:
>
>log()
>{
>
>	/* log to the msg buffer */
>	kvprintf(fmt, msglogchar, ...);
>
>	if (!log_open) {
>		/* log to console */
>		kvprintf(fmt, putchar, ...);
>	}
>}
>
>I think your patch is fine unless phk@ (cc'd) has a reason for not wanting to
>do this.

The reason was systems not running syslog having slow serial consoles.

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