Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752561AbbDDD2s (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Apr 2015 23:28:48 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f169.google.com ([209.85.223.169]:33774 "EHLO mail-ie0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751730AbbDDD2q (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Apr 2015 23:28:46 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <551F55DC.1000706@hurleysoftware.com> References: <1428102229-26103-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> <1428105875-4038-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> <551F4C6C.6040108@hurleysoftware.com> <551F55DC.1000706@hurleysoftware.com> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 20:28:45 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: V7CiS8MFQ0e60Ywrt6CHq06yQEk Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] earlycon: 8250: Fix command line regression From: Yinghai Lu To: Peter Hurley Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , "linux-serial@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jiri Slaby , Andrew Morton , Rob Herring Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 816 Lines: 27 On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Peter Hurley wrote: > > All this automatic behavior and aliases for the same things just > adds unnecessary complexity and maintenance burden, without measurable > gain. > > The real tragedy is that all this was totally unnecessary; what was > wrong with "earlycon=uart,io,0x3f8 console=ttyS0"? When I worked on the patch | commit 18a8bd949d6adb311ea816125ff65050df1f3f6e | Date: Sun Jul 15 23:37:59 2007 -0700 | | serial: convert early_uart to earlycon for 8250 Andrew requested that. Thanks Yinghai -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/