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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: pl011: add console matching function
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 20:34:47 +0100
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On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 12:17:18PM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 2:15 AM, Aleksey Makarov
> <aleksey.makarov@linaro.org> wrote:
> > This patch adds function pl011_console_match() that implements
> > method match of struct console.  It allows to match consoles against
> > data specified in a string, for example taken from command line or
> > compiled by ACPI SPCR table handler.
> >
> > This patch was merged to tty-next but then reverted because of
> > conflict with
> >
> > commit 46e36683f433 ("serial: earlycon: Extend earlycon command line option to support 64-bit addresses")
> >
> > Now it is fixed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Aleksey Makarov <aleksey.makarov@linaro.org>
> > Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
> > Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
> > Tested-by: Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> Is there any chance this fix will make it into 4.9?  It's been out for
> over a month.

It's scheduled for 4.10-rc1 as it is a new feature.