From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Hurley Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] earlycon: 8250: Fix command line regression Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 22:50:59 -0400 Message-ID: <551F5193.3050002@hurleysoftware.com> References: <1428102229-26103-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> <1428105875-4038-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> <551F4C6C.6040108@hurleysoftware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <551F4C6C.6040108@hurleysoftware.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Yinghai Lu , Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "linux-serial@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jiri Slaby , Andrew Morton , Rob Herring List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org On 04/03/2015 10:29 PM, Peter Hurley wrote: > On 04/03/2015 10:19 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> Another regression. >> when user have >> console=uart8250,io,0x3f8 console=uart8250,io,0x2f8 >> >> before your patchset: >> port_0x3f8 is early console, and will be console later. >> and port_0x2f8 is ignored, because only ONE early console is allowed. >> and old console setup, only handle ttyS0. >> >> after your patchset: >> port_0x3f8 is early console, and will be console later. >> port_0x2f8 will become default console, as new console with match method >> treat all uart8250 as ttyS0. >> >> Please fix that too. > > That's a new feature, not a regression. So, in all seriousness, you actually have this setup and want me to fix this? IOW, to support more than 1 earlycon in the future will require using a totally different command line parameter. Awesome.