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On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 04:40:47 +0100 Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> wrote: > + owl,<addr> > + Start an early, polled-mode console on an Owl serial > + port at the specified address. The serial port must > + already be setup and configured. Options are not yet > + supported. > + Apologies, I'm just getting around to looking at this. Is there any chance of getting a version of it that (1) has a proper changelog, and (2) better describes the applicability of this option. Presumably if I don't know what an "Owl serial port" is I don't need it, but maybe a phrase saying where such ports might be found would be helpful here? Thanks, jon
Am 03.03.2017 um 23:46 schrieb Jonathan Corbet: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 04:40:47 +0100 > Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> wrote: > >> + owl,<addr> >> + Start an early, polled-mode console on an Owl serial >> + port at the specified address. The serial port must >> + already be setup and configured. Options are not yet >> + supported. >> + > > Apologies, I'm just getting around to looking at this. > > Is there any chance of getting a version of it that (1) has a proper > changelog, and (2) better describes the applicability of this option. > Presumably if I don't know what an "Owl serial port" is I don't need it, > but maybe a phrase saying where such ports might be found would be helpful > here? Note that there is already a v3 of this patch. Both v2 and v3 do have a changelog, indicating that nothing changed here between versions. Did you mean commit message, and if so what would you like to see added exactly? Did you notice that most earlycon options are described like this? pl011, my meson, msm, lantiq all just repeat the driver name. In this case Owl is a family of Actions Semiconductor SoCs that are newly being enabled in this series - I can add the vendor name to the text, but no idea what else to say about "applicability"... While at it, it is really ugly for both users and contributors that there is no consistent (e.g., alphabetical) order of these options. Regards, Andreas
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 986e443..f48a142 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -943,6 +943,12 @@ must already be setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. + owl,<addr> + Start an early, polled-mode console on an Owl serial + port at the specified address. The serial port must + already be setup and configured. Options are not yet + supported. + smh Use ARM semihosting calls for early console. s3c2410,<addr>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> --- v1 -> v2: unchanged Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)