Re: [PATCH v2] console: Add console=auto option

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (08/16/18 13:39), Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>
> +		auto	[X86] Enable ACPI SPCR console
			^^^^
			And arm64?


Any chance we can rename param to "spcr" or something more clear?
To explicitly state what exactly it's going to do. `auto' sounds
too general and doesn't tell me that much. I'm probably the only
here who can't see a connection between "auto" and "SPCR", but
still.

One more thing, as far as I can tell, acpi_parse_spcr() can fail
and return an error. arch_console_setup() hides all errors and
returns void. Should it return error code?

	int arch_console_setup(void)
	{
		return acpi_parse_spcr(false, true);
	}

Or maybe

	void arch_console_setup(void)
	{
		if (acpi_parse_spcr(false, true))
			pr_err(.........);
	}

There can be other consoles in the system, logging an error is not
such a useless thing.

	-ss