Re: [PATCH v2] early_printk: consolidate random copies of identicalcode

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Mar 07 2013 - 16:43:25 EST


On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 22:25:48 +0100 (CET) Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
> > index 7664e49..86799bf 100644
> > --- a/kernel/printk.c
> > +++ b/kernel/printk.c
> > @@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ struct console_cmdline
> > static struct console_cmdline console_cmdline[MAX_CMDLINECONSOLES];
> > static int selected_console = -1;
> > static int preferred_console = -1;
> > +struct console *early_console;
> > int console_set_on_cmdline;
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL(console_set_on_cmdline);
> >
> > @@ -1718,7 +1719,6 @@ static size_t cont_print_text(char *text, size_t size) { return 0; }
> > #endif /* CONFIG_PRINTK */
> >
> > #ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK
> > -struct console *early_console;
> >
> > void early_vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list ap)
> > {
> >
> >
> > Then you don't have to spray any of those ifdefs into the sparc code.
>
> Yeah, that's what I thought as well. The extra pointer is not going to
> create massive bloat :)

It's a bit hacky though. If CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=n then that code just
shouldn't exist. If we let it persist then maybe it's doing other
wrong stuff as well.
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