linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86, setup: fix earlyprintk=serial,0x3f8,115200

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Message-ID: <4C7B05A6.4010801@kernel.org>
Date:	Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:13:10 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:	Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@...glemail.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] x86, setup: fix earlyprintk=serial,0x3f8,115200


earlyprintk could take io port.

So we need to handle this case in setup code too, otherwise 0x3f8
will be treated as baud rate.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>

---
 arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c |   14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c
@@ -58,7 +58,19 @@ static void parse_earlyprintk(void)
 		if (arg[pos] == ',')
 			pos++;
 
-		if (!strncmp(arg + pos, "ttyS", 4)) {
+		/*
+		 * make sure we have
+		 *	"serial,0x3f8,115200"
+		 *	"serial,ttyS0,115200"
+		 *	"ttyS0,115200"
+		 */
+		if (pos == 7 && !strncmp(arg + pos, "0x", 2)) {
+			port = simple_strtoull(arg + pos, &e, 16);
+			if (port == 0 || arg + pos == e)
+				port = DEFAULT_SERIAL_PORT;
+			else
+				pos = e - arg;
+		} else if (!strncmp(arg + pos, "ttyS", 4)) {
 			static const int bases[] = { 0x3f8, 0x2f8 };
 			int idx = 0;
 
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