linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] earlycon: 8250: Fix command line regression

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Date:	Fri, 3 Apr 2015 20:28:45 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"linux-serial@...r.kernel.org" <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] earlycon: 8250: Fix command line regression

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com> wrote:

>
> All this automatic behavior and aliases for the same things just
> adds unnecessary complexity and maintenance burden, without measurable
> gain.
>
> The real tragedy is that all this was totally unnecessary; what was
> wrong with "earlycon=uart,io,0x3f8 console=ttyS0"?

When I worked on the patch

| commit 18a8bd949d6adb311ea816125ff65050df1f3f6e
| Date:   Sun Jul 15 23:37:59 2007 -0700
|
|    serial: convert early_uart to earlycon for 8250

Andrew requested that.

Thanks

Yinghai
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