Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753841AbbEZO7F (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2015 10:59:05 -0400 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:65174 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753537AbbEZO7D (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2015 10:59:03 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,498,1427785200"; d="scan'208";a="731856622" Message-ID: <1432652334.8736.39.camel@linux.intel.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/3] x86/earlyprintk: setup serial earlyprintk as early as possible From: Andy Shevchenko To: Alexander Kuleshov Cc: Borislav Petkov , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , LKML , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Mark Rustad , Yinghai Lu Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 17:58:54 +0300 In-Reply-To: References: <1432645607-29343-1-git-send-email-kuleshovmail@gmail.com> <20150526131717.GB18076@nazgul.tnic> <20150526135700.GC18076@nazgul.tnic> Organization: Intel Finland Oy Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.9-1+b1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 978 Lines: 26 On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 20:11 +0600, Alexander Kuleshov wrote: > 2015-05-26 19:57 GMT+06:00 Borislav Petkov : > > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 07:20:02PM +0600, Alexander Kuleshov wrote: > >> To be able to use early_printk and serial console between kernel > >> decompression and parse_eary_param. > > > > So no real use case - only a "just because we can" case. > > > > It is not "just because we can". There is some code after kernel decompression > and before parse_early_param and earlyprintk can be useful for > printing debugging information > in this case. So, what is *yours* use case? From here you describe a *potential* use case, not a real one. -- Andy Shevchenko Intel Finland Oy -- 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/