There were some conflicts in the linux-next tree which caused a 3rd spin of this patch set. Since the v2 patches were posted here are the changes: 1) Patch 1 was fixed to build the drivers/usb/Makefile builds the early dir unconditionally because code can live in it which does not actually require the usb stack. 2) Patch 5 in the series had the printk & CON_BOOT logic removed because it is implemented a different way in forth coming patches in the tip branch. 3) Patch 11 was added to allow the dbgp device to survive a suspend / resume -- This patch series against the 2.6.31-rc6 covers improving the reliability of earlyprintk when using a usb debug device connected to an EHCI debug controller. The only patch that is not directly related to the USB earlyprintk is the 5th in the series which changes the early console registration such that you can have more than one earlyprintk device. It is plausible to drop this patch if folks object to the idea or implementation. These patches were heavily test on 12 different systems with a total of 7 different EHCI controllers on both the x86_64 and i386 architectures. The series starts by moving the EHCI debug code out of the arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c and over to under the drivers/usb/early/ehci-dbgp.c. It is plausible to use this code on other architectures beyond x86. This also allows the earlyprintk.c to stay a bit cleaner, since it is primarily intended to handle the "earlyprintk=" setup. The other key changes are: * Update the documentation to reflect the usage constraints * The earlyprintk=keep,... works correctly with dbgp * Make the cr nl handling for dbgp the same as the uart drivers * Numerous errata and initialization fixes to make the usb debug device work with a wide range of EHCI controllers Thanks, Jason. The following changes since commit 6c30c53fd5ae6a99a23ad78e90c428d2c8ffb07f: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/.../ryusuke/nilfs2 are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb.git for_gregkh_2 Jason Wessel (11): ehci,dbgp,early_printk: split ehci debug driver from early_printk.c dbgp: insert cr prior to nl as needed ehci-dbgp: Execute early BIOS hand off dbgp: EHCI debug controller initialization delays early_printk: Allow more than one early console ehci-dbgp: stability improvements and external re-init ehci-dbgp,ehci: Allow early or late use of the dbgp device ehci-dbgp: errata for EHCI debug controller initialization ehci-dbgp: errata for EHCI debug/host controller synchronization ehci-dbgp,documentation: Documentation updates for ehci-dbgp ehci-dbgp,ehci: Allow dbpg to work with suspend/resume Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +- Documentation/x86/earlyprintk.txt | 39 ++- arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c | 780 ++-------------------------- drivers/usb/Makefile | 1 + drivers/usb/early/Makefile | 5 + drivers/usb/early/ehci-dbgp.c | 996 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c | 8 + drivers/usb/host/ehci-hub.c | 17 + drivers/usb/host/ehci-pci.c | 39 +- include/linux/usb/ehci_def.h | 22 + 10 files changed, 1139 insertions(+), 770 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/usb/early/Makefile create mode 100644 drivers/usb/early/ehci-dbgp.c -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html