linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] x86/boot: Support nocfg parameter for earlyprintk

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Message-ID: <415863c9-8a06-f392-a558-bce694069d09@infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 20 Mar 2019 08:19:46 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] x86/boot: Support nocfg parameter for earlyprintk

On 3/20/19 8:17 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 08:05:51AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On 3/19/19 11:43 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>> If by BIOS or by other means the serial port is configured
>>> user might want to skip reconfiguration in the boot code.
>>>
>>> Add support of 'nocfg' parameter to earlyprintk.
> 
>> Please add "nocfg" to Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt.
> 
> I think it's not a time right now to do so. This only does it for boot stage.
> 

OK.   Is there somewhere else that it could be added to Documentation/[x86/]?

thanks.
-- 
~Randy