linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/4] drivers: serial: kgdboc: Drop checks for CON_ENABLED and CON

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Message-Id: <20251121-printk-cleanup-part2-v2-1-57b8b78647f4@suse.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:50:33 -0300
From: Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@...e.com>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, 
 John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>, 
 Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>, 
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, 
 Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>, 
 Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>, 
 Daniel Thompson <danielt@...nel.org>, 
 Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>, 
 Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, 
 Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com>, 
 Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, 
 kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-um@...ts.infradead.org, 
 Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@...e.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/4] drivers: serial: kgdboc: Drop checks for
 CON_ENABLED and CON_BOOT

The original code tried to find a console that has CON_BOOT _or_
CON_ENABLED flag set. The flag CON_ENABLED is set to all registered
consoles, so in this case this check is always true, even for the
CON_BOOT consoles.

The initial intent of the kgdboc_earlycon_init was to get a console
early (CON_BOOT) or later on in the process (CON_ENABLED). The
code was using for_each_console macro, meaning that all console structs
were previously registered on the printk() machinery. At this point,
any console found on for_each_console is safe for kgdboc_earlycon_init
to use.

Dropping the check makes the code cleaner, and avoids further confusion
by future readers of the code.

Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <mpdesouza@...e.com>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c b/drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c
index 85f6c5a76e0f..5a955c80a853 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c
@@ -577,7 +577,6 @@ static int __init kgdboc_earlycon_init(char *opt)
 	console_list_lock();
 	for_each_console(con) {
 		if (con->write && con->read &&
-		    (con->flags & (CON_BOOT | CON_ENABLED)) &&
 		    (!opt || !opt[0] || strcmp(con->name, opt) == 0))
 			break;
 	}

-- 
2.51.1