From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932854AbcEQKL6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2016 06:11:58 -0400 Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:34226 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751907AbcEQKL5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2016 06:11:57 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 11:11:19 +0100 From: Alan To: "Leizhen (ThunderTown)" Cc: Peter Hurley , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jiri Slaby , linux-serial , linux-kernel , Zefan Li , Xinwei Hu , "Tianhong Ding" , Hanjun Guo , "Kefeng Wang" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] tty/serial: to support 8250 earlycon can be enabled independently Message-ID: <20160517111119.1b4daa57@lxorguk.ukuu.orguk> In-Reply-To: <573AB623.2070300@huawei.com> References: <1463398558-6636-1-git-send-email-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> <5739E9DC.3060805@hurleysoftware.com> <573AB623.2070300@huawei.com> Organization: Intel Corporation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.13.2 (GTK+ 2.24.30; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > I'm confused; you want the possibility of earlycon but _not_ a > > normal serial console? > Our downstream customers want add some private functions into > 8250.ko. So that, we can not pre-build the 8250 driver into Image. The starting point would be to share that functionality with the community and look at how it can be merged nicely. Alan