[PATCH] x86, setup: fix earlyprintk=serial,0x3f8,115200

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Sun Aug 29 2010 - 21:15:03 EST



earlyprintk could take io port.

So we need to handle this case in setup code too, otherwise 0x3f8
will be treated as baud rate.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c
@@ -58,7 +58,19 @@ static void parse_earlyprintk(void)
if (arg[pos] == ',')
pos++;

- if (!strncmp(arg + pos, "ttyS", 4)) {
+ /*
+ * make sure we have
+ * "serial,0x3f8,115200"
+ * "serial,ttyS0,115200"
+ * "ttyS0,115200"
+ */
+ if (pos == 7 && !strncmp(arg + pos, "0x", 2)) {
+ port = simple_strtoull(arg + pos, &e, 16);
+ if (port == 0 || arg + pos == e)
+ port = DEFAULT_SERIAL_PORT;
+ else
+ pos = e - arg;
+ } else if (!strncmp(arg + pos, "ttyS", 4)) {
static const int bases[] = { 0x3f8, 0x2f8 };
int idx = 0;

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