From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Hurley Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 -next 03/13] console: Add extensible console matching Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 08:00:25 -0500 Message-ID: <54FAF669.6060303@hurleysoftware.com> References: <1425225958-17908-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> <1425225958-17908-4-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> <20150307025754.GA23812@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20150307025754.GA23812@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Andrew Morton , Jiri Slaby , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Rob Herring List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org On 03/06/2015 09:57 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 11:05:48AM -0500, Peter Hurley wrote: >> Add match() method to struct console which allows the console to >> perform console command line matching instead of (or in addition to) >> default console matching (ie., by fixed name and index). >> >> The match() method returns 0 to indicate a successful match; normal >> console matching occurs if no match() method is defined or the >> match() method returns non-zero. The match() method is expected to set >> the console index if required. >> >> Re-implement earlycon-to-console-handoff with direct matching of >> "console=uart|uart8250,..." to the 8250 ttyS console. >> >> Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley >> --- >> drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- >> drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c | 23 ------------- >> include/linux/console.h | 3 +- >> include/linux/serial_8250.h | 2 -- >> kernel/printk/printk.c | 52 ++++++++++------------------- >> 5 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 77 deletions(-) > > This didn't apply, so I've stopped here. Hi Greg, Your tty-testing branch doesn't have "console: Fix console name size mismatch" that you added to tty-linus. I tried to draw attention to that in the series cover letter: On 03/01/2015 11:05 AM, Peter Hurley wrote: > Changes from v1: > * rebased on and requires "console: Fix console name size mismatch" Regards, Peter Hurley