[PATCH 7/8] arm: mvebu: add another earlyprintk Kconfig option
Jason Cooper
jason at lakedaemon.net
Wed Jun 5 10:07:59 EDT 2013
On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 03:47:49PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Jason Cooper,
>
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 09:45:52 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
>
> > > config DEBUG_MVEBU_UART
> >
> > Perhaps we should change this to DEBUG_MVEBU_UART_LEGACY?
>
> > > + config DEBUG_MVEBU_UART_ALTERNATE
> >
> > And this to DEBUG_MVEBU_UART?
>
> I'm fine with doing that, but it means that people who will keep their
> current .config that has CONFIG_DEBUG_MVEBU_UART=y will suddenly see
> their earlyprintk use 0xf1 instead of 0xd0. So in terms of kconfig
> backward compatibility, it's not the nicest thing, but if you believe
> that's ok, I'll change the patch as you proposed.
Very true. I was purely looking at form. Backwards compatibility is
definitely more important.
thx,
Jason.
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