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

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 08/29/2010 06:13 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> earlyprintk could take io port.
> 
> So we need to handle this case in setup code too, otherwise 0x3f8
> will be treated as baud rate.
> 

What about a non-hexadecimal port?  It seems more logical to me to move
the strncmp() up and test that before using simple_strtoull().

	-hpa
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