From: Anton Vorontsov anton.vorontsov@linaro.org Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 19:35:16 -0700
For scripting it is important to have a consistent header that tells where the kernel log starts. At least to me it always seemed that linux_banner served this purpose.
Your change will not achieve this goal, many architectures print things long before control passes to init/main.c