On Wed, 17 Dec 2014, Joe Perches wrote: > It seems like early_printk can be configured into > a few architectures but also appear not to be used. > > $ git grep -w "early_printk" ... > These seem to the only uses: ... > So blackfin, m68k, and mips seems to have it possible to enable, > but also don't appear at first glance to use it, Hint: CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK covers far more than early_printk() > Is early_printk really used by these architectures? > Should it be removed? Sure, if you have a good reason to remove working functionality. Thanks, tglx
