linux-kernel - Re: [patch 18/24] Xen-paravirt_ops: Some generic early printk & boot console fixups

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Date:	Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:48:14 -0800
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Andi Kleen <ak@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.osdl.org, xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [patch 18/24] Xen-paravirt_ops: Some generic early printk & boot
 console fixups

Andrew Morton wrote:
> hm, this patch series seems to have gone out of its way to cause problems.
>
> This particular (pathetically changelogged) patch is already in my tree,
> only in a later, much more comprehensive form.  Similarly the HVC changes
> were already in Rusty's stuff and were supposed to be merged by Paulus, but
> haven't been yet.
>
> Can we just drop this one?  Does the Xen work actually depend on it?

Well, some form of the hvc patches is needed to get a console.  I'll
rationalize them with respect to Gerd and Rusty's latest patches, but I
did want to make the series stand on its own rather than have external
dependencies on unmerged patches.

    J
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