linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 1/7] printk: Save console options for add_preferred_console

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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:36:07 +0200
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To: Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Dhruva Gole <d-gole@...com>,
	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/7] printk: Save console options for
 add_preferred_console_match()

On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 12:59:35PM +0200, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> Driver subsystems may need to translate the preferred console name to the
> character device name used. We already do some of this in console_setup()
> with a few hardcoded names, but that does not scale well.
> 
> The console options are parsed early in console_setup(), and the consoles
> are added with __add_preferred_console(). At this point we don't know much
> about the character device names and device drivers getting probed.
> 
> To allow driver subsystems to set up a preferred console, let's save the
> kernel command line console options. To add a preferred console from a
> driver subsystem with optional character device name translation, let's
> add a new function add_preferred_console_match().
> 
> This allows the serial core layer to support console=DEVNAME:0.0 style
> hardware based addressing in addition to the current console=ttyS0 style
> naming. And we can start moving console_setup() character device parsing
> to the driver subsystem specific code.
> 
> We use a separate array from the console_cmdline array as the character
> device name and index may be unknown at the console_setup() time. And
> eventually there's no need to call __add_preferred_console() until the
> subsystem is ready to handle the console.
> 
> Adding the console name in addition to the character device name, and a
> flag for an added console, could be added to the struct console_cmdline.
> And the console_cmdline array handling could be modified accordingly. But
> that complicates things compared saving the console options, and then
> adding the consoles when the subsystems handling the consoles are ready.
> 
> Co-developed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>

This requires my SoB as well.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>

> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko