Re: [PATCH] ignore ,keep for efi earlyprintk

[Ingo Molnar]

* Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> earlyprint=efi,keep results a kernel hang after "Freeing unused kernel memory"

That's a bug.

> 
> Actually efi earlyprintk is using __init functions such as early_ioremap etc.
> Thus efi earlyconsole can not be kept.
> 
> So just ignore it and give out a warning to user.

So, bugs should be fixed, not worked around.

earlyprintk=,keep is really useful for the occasional difficult low 
level bug in the printk code or similar, because earlyprintk is a 
completely separate code path from printk().

Thanks,

	Ingo
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