From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: OCTEON: fix EARLY_PRINTK_8250 build failure
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:40:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140327074016.GN17197@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1395777525-28910-1-git-send-email-aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 09:58:45PM +0200, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> Enabling EARLY_PRINTK_8250 breaks OCTEON builds because of multiple
> prom_putchar() implementations. OCTEON provides its own prom_putchar()
> (also used by the watchdog driver), so we should prevent user from
> selecting EARLY_PRINTK_8250 on OCTEON.
There shouldn't be Octeon-specific code in the 8250-driver, not even
the Kconfig bits. Also other systems - at least Sibyte - affected
by the same issue so I went for a different patch.
Ralf
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-27 7:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-25 19:58 [PATCH] MIPS: OCTEON: fix EARLY_PRINTK_8250 build failure Aaro Koskinen
2014-03-27 7:40 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
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