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Date:	Thu, 14 May 2015 17:07:30 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Bin Gao <bin.gao@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] arch/x86: remove pci uart early console from
 early_prink.c

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 04:44:42PM -0700, Bin Gao wrote:
> >From 78ab0810176c544e2b6f14ca8b19c90d339fa6f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Bin Gao <bin.gao@...el.com>
> Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 15:49:58 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] arch/x86: remove pci uart early console from early_prink.c
> 
> The arch independent uart8250 early console driver has good
> support for memory mapped and io port based 8250 uarts. Since
> pci is arch independent so it's natural to extend uart8250 to
> support mem, io and pci. Hence pci uart early console in
> arch/x86/kernel_printk.c by the following commit:
> 'commit 5140fda16051 ("Specify PCI based UART for earlyprintk")'
> is removed. And its equivalent function will be available from
> uart8250 early console driver.
> 
> This patch comes with another patch:
> serial_core: add pci uart early console support

What is this here for?  If this is 2/2, of course we know patch 1/2
needs to come first...

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