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From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: handle blank console arguments passed in.
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On (20/10/06 18:35), Petr Mladek wrote:
> > > Whatever is decided, I'd like to have it made official and documented to
> > > avoid a similar problem in the future.
> 
> Sigh, it is even bigger mess than I expected. There is a magic
> variable "console_set_on_cmdline". It used, for example, in
> of_console_check() to prevent using the default console from dts.

I wonder if we can do something like:

---
@@ -2200,6 +2200,9 @@ static int __init console_setup(char *str)
        char *s, *options, *brl_options = NULL;
        int idx;
 
        if (str[0] == 0) {
+		console_set_on_cmdline = 1;
                return 1;
 	}
 
        if (_braille_console_setup(&str, &brl_options))
                return 1;
---

	-ss