Re: rfc: remove early_printk from a few arches? (blackfin, m68k, mips)

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2014-12-19 at 01:43 +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> What exactly are you proposing to remove?

Optionally compile out
kernel/printk/printk.c:early_printk()
even if CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK is enabled.

> I see no unused code related
> to early printk (in any variant) under arch/mips.

I think there could be yet another CONFIG option
to specifically enable the early_printk function
for the arches that use it.

The kernel/printk/early_printk() function seems
used only by arm/microblaze/tile/x86.


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