Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753967AbbFISIn (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2015 14:08:43 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f50.google.com ([209.85.215.50]:35868 "EHLO mail-la0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751955AbbFISIm convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2015 14:08:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1433869251.26331.114.camel@linux.intel.com> References: <1433848247-3550-1-git-send-email-kuleshovmail@gmail.com> <1433848301-5296-1-git-send-email-kuleshovmail@gmail.com> <1433869251.26331.114.camel@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 00:00:43 +0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 4/5] x86/earlyprintk: setup earlyprintk as early as possible From: Alexander Kuleshov To: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , LKML , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Borislav Petkov , Mark Rustad , Yinghai Lu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 965 Lines: 34 2015-06-09 23:00 GMT+06:00 Andy Shevchenko : > > I'm still not convincing by this code to be in that form and here. What > about to refactor setup_early_printk() to helper which will do parse > parameters to a let say structure where one of the flag will be > struct early_printk_param { > … > const char *arg; > bool serial; > } > > Your function will be something like this > > struct early_printk_param epp; > > parse_early_printk_param(&epp); > > if (!epp->serial) > return /* whatever error code */; > > return setup_early_printk(epp.arg); > Hello Andy, But what is difference between parsing to string and passing it and parsing to structure and pass its field? Thank you. -- 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/