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    printk: Save console options for add_preferred_console_match() · f03e8c10
    Tony Lindgren authored
    Driver subsystems may need to translate the preferred console name to the
    character device name used. We already do some of this in console_setup()
    with a few hardcoded names, but that does not scale well.
    
    The console options are parsed early in console_setup(), and the consoles
    are added with __add_preferred_console(). At this point we don't know much
    about the character device names and device drivers getting probed.
    
    To allow driver subsystems to set up a preferred console, let's save the
    kernel command line console options. To add a preferred console from a
    driver subsystem with optional character device name translation, let's
    add a new function add_preferred_console_match().
    
    This allows the serial core layer to support console=DEVNAME:0.0 style
    hardware based addressing in addition to the current console=ttyS0 style
    naming. And we can start moving console_setup() character device parsing
    to the driver subsystem specific code.
    
    We use a separate array from the console_cmdline array as the character
    device name and index may be unknown at the console_setup() time. And
    eventually there's no need to call __add_preferred_console() until the
    subsystem is ready to handle the console.
    
    Adding the console name in addition to the character device name, and a
    flag for an added console, could be added to the struct console_cmdline.
    And the console_cmdline array handling could be modified accordingly. But
    that complicates things compared saving the console options, and then
    adding the consoles when the subsystems handling the consoles are ready.
    Co-developed-by: default avatarAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240327110021.59793-2-tony@atomide.comSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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