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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:51:39 -0700
From: Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@....COM>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm2: serial-convert-early_uart-to-earlycon-for-8250
Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> The following patch to 2.6.22-rc4-mm2 seems to update the early console
> support for the 8250 uarts:
>
> serial-convert-early_uart-to-earlycon-for-8250
>
> This moved from naming the 8250 uart 'uart' to 'uart8250' in the
> console= kernel parameter. While this is sensible long term to allow
> other uarts to be supported sanely this puts existing users with
> existing console configurations in a difficult position as their console
> output just stops appearing. It makes life almost impossible for any
> automatic testers as they now need to have different command lines for
> different versions of the kernel.
>
> I think we need to maintain 'uart' as an alias here.
I will try to make one patch to use uart too.
YH
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