On 05/04/2015 04:22 PM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 10:01:37AM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
>> Hi Robert,
>>
>> On 05/03/2015 05:10 PM, Robert Schwebel wrote:
>>> Hi Peter,
>>>
>>> with 4.1-rc1, my boxes with early console enabled show something like
>>> this (the example is vexpress, but it for example also happens on an
>>> AM335x board):
>>>
>>> earlycon: no match for ttyAMA0,38400n8
>>
>> This shouldn't impact any previous earlycon setup. Are you saying
>> you're seeing a regression?
>>
>> How do you have early console enabled, via the command line or via DT?
>
> What happens here is that Robert has console=ttyAMA0,38400n8 in his
> command line.
Yeah, thanks, that much is now clear from his second email.
> In init/main.c we have:
>
> static int __init do_early_param(char *param, char *val, const char *unused)
> {
> const struct obs_kernel_param *p;
>
> for (p = __setup_start; p < __setup_end; p++) {
> if ((p->early && parameq(param, p->str)) ||
> (strcmp(param, "console") == 0 &&
> strcmp(p->str, "earlycon") == 0)
> ) {
> if (p->setup_func(val) != 0)
> pr_warn("Malformed early option '%s'\n", param);
> }
> }
> /* We accept everything at this stage. */
> return 0;
> }
>
> This means that param_setup_earlycon() gets called with the arguments
> passed to the console= parameter which makes no sense in this context
> and leads to the "no match for" message.
Right, except that "the context" has insufficient information to differentiate
an error, such as a misspelled earlycon name, from any other use.
Regards,
Peter Hurley
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