linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] tty/serial: to support 8250 earlycon can be enabled independently

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Date:	Tue, 17 May 2016 11:11:19 +0100
From:	Alan <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	"Leizhen (ThunderTown)" <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>
Cc:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
	linux-serial <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Zefan Li <lizefan@...wei.com>, Xinwei Hu <huxinwei@...wei.com>,
	"Tianhong Ding" <dingtianhong@...wei.com>,
	Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@...wei.com>,
	"Kefeng Wang" <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] tty/serial: to support 8250 earlycon can be enabled
 independently

> > I'm confused; you want the possibility of earlycon but _not_ a
> > normal serial console?  
> Our downstream customers want add some private functions into
> 8250.ko. So that, we can not pre-build the 8250 driver into Image.

The starting point would be to share that functionality with the
community and look at how it can be merged nicely. 

Alan