Virtio_console usage of early printk

["François Diakhate" <fdiakh@gmail.com>]

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Hi all,

As far as I can see, early_put_chars is not used by virtio_console
because it checks whether there is a port available before using it.
If I understand correctly, this makes it useless because once we have
a port, we can use the regular virtio transport to output things to
the console. Does the attached patch seem valid ? Feedback from s390
and powerpc users who use this functionality would be appreciated.

Thanks,
François

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From 3961f380bbe84a1036ddfc823039cbee31b44dcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf-8?q?Fran=C3=A7ois=20Diakhat=C3=A9?= <fdiakh@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:48:20 +0100
Subject: virtio: console: Fix early_put_chars usage

Currently early_put_chars is not used by virtio_console because it can only be used once a port has been found, at which point it's too late because it is no longer needed. This patch should fix it.
---
 drivers/char/virtio_console.c |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
index f404ccf..691ba21 100644
--- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
@@ -645,13 +645,13 @@ static int put_chars(u32 vtermno, const char *buf, int count)
 {
 	struct port *port;
 
+	if (unlikely(early_put_chars))
+		return early_put_chars(vtermno, buf, count);
+
 	port = find_port_by_vtermno(vtermno);
 	if (!port)
 		return 0;
 
-	if (unlikely(early_put_chars))
-		return early_put_chars(vtermno, buf, count);
-
 	return send_buf(port, (void *)buf, count);
 }
 
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