Re: [PATCH v11 4/5] x86/earlyprintk: setup earlyprintk as early as possible

From: Alexander Kuleshov
Date: Tue Jun 09 2015 - 14:08:46 EST


2015-06-09 23:00 GMT+06:00 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> I'm still not convincing by this code to be in that form and here. What
> about to refactor setup_early_printk() to helper which will do parse
> parameters to a let say structure where one of the flag will be
> struct early_printk_param {
> â
> const char *arg;
> bool serial;
> }
>
> Your function will be something like this
>
> struct early_printk_param epp;
>
> parse_early_printk_param(&epp);
>
> if (!epp->serial)
> return /* whatever error code */;
>
> return setup_early_printk(epp.arg);
>

Hello Andy,

But what is difference between parsing to string and
passing it and parsing to structure and pass its field?

Thank you.
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