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Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 14:01:40 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
To: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
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On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 01:33:23PM +0600, Alexander Kuleshov wrote:
> We can't use earlyprintk from the arch/x86/kernel/head{32,64}.c before
> parse_early_param from the arch/x86/kernel/setup.c.

Yes, and I'm simply asking why do we even want to use it there at all.
What do you think would need to be dumped with early_printk() calls
there and would be useful?

IOW, do you have a sensible use case for why we need it there or not?

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