Re: [PATCH] early serial console support

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 03:21:16PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> +	/*
> +	 * The presence of an HCDP entry does not imply that we should
> +	 * use a serial console.
> +	 */
> +	if (!strstr(cmdline, "console=serial"))
> +		return;

Yes, but ... it's legal to say "console=tty,serial".  So perhaps we need
something like ...

	char *constart = strstr(cmdline, "console=");
	if (!constart)
		return;
	constart += 8;
	char *consend = strchr(constart, ' ');
	if (!consend)
		consend = constart + strlen(constart);
	if (!memmem(constart, consend - consline, "serial", 6))
		return;

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