Re: [PATCH v2] earlycon: 8250: Fix command line regression

[Yinghai Lu]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> All this automatic behavior and aliases for the same things just
> adds unnecessary complexity and maintenance burden, without measurable
> gain.
>
> The real tragedy is that all this was totally unnecessary; what was
> wrong with "earlycon=uart,io,0x3f8 console=ttyS0"?

When I worked on the patch

| commit 18a8bd949d6adb311ea816125ff65050df1f3f6e
| Date:   Sun Jul 15 23:37:59 2007 -0700
|
|    serial: convert early_uart to earlycon for 8250

Andrew requested that.

Thanks

Yinghai
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