[PATCH v2 3/7] tty/serial: convert 8250 to generic earlycon

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sat May 3 15:16:58 PDT 2014


On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 06:07:31PM -0400, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 06:20:53PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 1:19 AM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai at kernel.org> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Rob Herring <robherring2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> From: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
> > >>
> > >> With the generic earlycon infrastructure in place, convert the 8250
> > >> early console to use it.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
> > >> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> > >> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby at suse.cz>
> > >> ---
> > >>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c | 138 ++++-------------------------------
> > >>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig      |   1 +
> > >>  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 123 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > Hi Greg, Rob
> > >
> > > This one in tty-next breaks booting: "console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,115200".
> > > No early console and regular console anymore.
> > >
> > > It should produce "early con and regular con".
> > 
> > This is what I get for running checkpatch and converting
> > simple_strtoul to kstrto* which are not so equivalent. kstrto* will
> > not convert things such as 115200n8 to a number.
> > 
> > Greg, Do you want a fix or for me to respin the series? The fix looks like this:
> 
> As this is in my tree now (right?), I need a fix to apply to it.

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