Re: The console log is doubled if earlycon is enabled

[Jon Masters]

On 11/30/15, 12:10 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 02:53:49PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > 2015-11-28 9:04 GMT+09:00 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 07:21:06PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > If I add "earlycon" to the kernel parameter, the log message
> > > > on the earlycon is also displayed to the regular console.
> > > > In other words, the same log messages are displayed twice.
> > > >
> > > > I noticed this problem on v4.4-rc1.
> > > > It has not been fixed in the mainline yet, I think.
> > > >
> > > > Anybody who has a clue?
> > > > (I have not done git-bisect yet.)
> > >
> > > Can you do 'git bisect'?
> >
> >
> > The same problem happened on v4.3.
> > (I think I just did not notice the problem before.)
> >
> > So, the bad commit is not in the last merge window.
>
> Is it ok for 4.2?  4.1?  Finding out where this started to "fail" would
> be good to know...

Just as a data point, on our internal systems earlycon is known good in 
combination with regular console (provided by SPCR ACPI patch) on 4.2.

Jon.

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