From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Robert Millan <rmh@gnu.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] removed ad-hoc cmdline default
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 22:58:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101108225835.GA7167@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1289133509.1547.1@thorin>
On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 01:38:29PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> Loongson builds have an ad-hoc cmdline default of "console=ttyS0,115200
> root=/dev/hda1". These settings come from vendor (I remember builds
> from Lemote branch requiring a "console=tty" override in order to get a
> working console).
>
> At least on my Yeeloong, they're particularly useless: there's no
> (external) serial port, and the IDE drive is now recognised as /dev/
> sda.
>
> I recommend removing them. They make sense from a distributor/vendor
> POV but otherwise are just a nuissance.
Makes sense to me but I'm not an authoritative expert for all Loongson
platforms so I'm going to wait for comments for a few days before I'm
going to apply this.
Generally forcing options like this is just a bad idea.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-09 4:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-07 12:38 [PATCH] removed ad-hoc cmdline default Robert Millan
2010-11-08 22:58 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2011-01-24 23:22 ` Ralf Baechle
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