From: Jason Wessel Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:08:30 +0000 (-0500) Subject: x86: earlyprintk: Fix regression to handle serial,ttySn as 1 arg X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ea3acb199a5d7e4da1de0a4288eba993b29f33b9;p=linux-beck.git x86: earlyprintk: Fix regression to handle serial,ttySn as 1 arg Commit c953094 ("early_printk: Allow more than one early console") introduced a regression in the parsing of the earlyprintk= kernel arguments. If you specify "earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200" as a kernel argument, the "serial,ttyS" should be parsed as a single argument and not as "serial" and then "ttyS". Also update the documentation to reflect you can specify the ttyS directly without the "serial" argument. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel Cc: Len Brown Cc: Greg KH Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Johannes Weiner LKML-Reference: <4ABB7D5E.6000301@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 6fa7292947e5..9107b387e91f 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -671,6 +671,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN] earlyprintk=vga earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] + earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] Append ",keep" to not disable it when the real console diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c b/arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c index 41fd965c80c6..b9c830c12b4a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c @@ -206,8 +206,11 @@ static int __init setup_early_printk(char *buf) while (*buf != '\0') { if (!strncmp(buf, "serial", 6)) { - early_serial_init(buf + 6); + buf += 6; + early_serial_init(buf); early_console_register(&early_serial_console, keep); + if (!strncmp(buf, ",ttyS", 5)) + buf += 5; } if (!strncmp(buf, "ttyS", 4)) { early_serial_init(buf + 4);