Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tty: xilinx_uartps: move to arch_initcall for earlier console | From | Michal Simek <> | Date | Wed, 6 Sep 2017 14:43:40 +0200 |
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On 31.8.2017 14:59, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> wrote: >> On 24.8.2017 01:24, Greg KH wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 04:50:21PM +0530, Shubhrajyoti Datta wrote: >>>> Signed-off-by: Shubhrajyoti Datta <shubhrajyoti.datta@xilinx.com> >>> >>> I can't take patches without any changelog text at all :( >> >> ok. I see you have also commented this. >> >> Anyway this is kind of old discussion about moving serial drivers to >> arch_initcall from module_init. >> >> There is one patch in the tree. >> >> commit 4dd9e742df98f8f600b4302d3adbb087a68237f7 >> Author: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com> >> AuthorDate: Tue May 5 05:54:13 2009 +0100 >> Commit: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> >> CommitDate: Sun May 31 14:58:11 2009 +0100 >> >> [ARM] 5505/1: serial amba-pl011: move to arch_initcall for earlier >> console >> >> Signed-off-by: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@unipv.it>" >> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> >> >> >> and then there was one patch (also sent to linux-serial but don't have link) >> https://patches.linaro.org/patch/14633/ >> >> where that discussion wasn't finished. > > Yeah Alessandro never came back on that. > > I *guess* it is to get the console up really early, simply becaus it is > quite helpful for spotting early boot problems.
ok. It means no concern about the move to arch_initcall. Shubhrajyoti: Please send v2 with changelog.
Thanks, Michal
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