On Fri, 2014-12-19 at 00:33 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > 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() I know this. Note also I didn't specify CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK, just 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. Unused. Ideally, all direct early_printk() uses would go away. This would just be a starting point to minimize code.
