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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: rfc: remove early_printk from a few arches? (blackfin, m68k,
 mips)
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 17:14:18 -0800
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On Fri, 2014-12-19 at 00:33 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2014, Joe Perches wrote:
> > It seems like early_printk can be configured into
> > a few architectures but also appear not to be used.
> > 
> > $ git grep -w "early_printk"
> ...
> > These seem to the only uses:
> ... 
> > So blackfin, m68k, and mips seems to have it possible to enable,
> > but also don't appear at first glance to use it,
> 
> Hint: CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK covers far more than early_printk()

I know this.

Note also I didn't specify CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK,
just early_printk.
 
> > Is early_printk really used by these architectures?
> > Should it be removed?
> 
> Sure, if you have a good reason to remove working functionality.

Unused.

Ideally, all direct early_printk() uses would go away.
This would just be a starting point to minimize code.