Re: [PATCH 56/68] serial: MMIO32 support for 8250_early.c

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Aug 12 2010 - 15:08:33 EST


On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:43:15AM -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > +       if (mmio || mmio32)
> > +               printk(KERN_INFO
> > +                      "Early serial console at MMIO%s 0x%llu (options '%s')\n",
> > +                       mmio32 ? "32" : "",
> > +                       (unsigned long long)port->mapbase,
> > +                       device->options);
> > +       else
> > +               printk(KERN_INFO
> > +                     "Early serial console at I/O port 0x%lu (options '%s')\n",
> > +                       port->iobase,
> > +                       device->options);
> > +
>
> This change looks to be responsible for some confusing dmesg output. Here's some
> diff between v2.6.35 and current Linus tree:
>
>
> < Early serial console at I/O port 0x3f8 (options '115200')
> ---
> > Early serial console at I/O port 0x1016 (options '115200')
>
> Note that my serial port didn't move to a different address. Hex(3f8)
> == Decimal(1016)
>
> I think those two printk formats should be using 'x' format rather than 'u' :-)

Very good point, someone want to send me a patch?

thanks,

greg k-h
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