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Date:   Wed, 9 Nov 2022 08:23:46 +0000
From:   Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
To:     John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH printk v3 12/40] tty: serial: kgdboc: document
 console_lock usage
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On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 03:22:10PM +0106, John Ogness wrote:
> kgdboc_earlycon_init() uses the console_lock to ensure that no consoles
> are unregistered until the kgdboc_earlycon is setup. This is necessary
> because the trapping of the exit() callback assumes that the exit()
> callback is not called before the trap is setup.
>
> Explicitly document this non-typical console_lock usage.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>


Daniel.