The patch titled console: console handover to preferred console has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was console-console-handover-to-preferred-console.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: console: console handover to preferred console From: Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@xxxxxxx> for earlyprintk=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8 the handover will happen from earlyser0 to tty0. but what we want is to hand over to ttyS0. Later with serial-convert-early_uart-to-earlycon-for-8250.patch, console=tty0 console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8 will handover to ttyS0 instead of tty0. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx> Cc: Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/printk.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/printk.c~console-console-handover-to-preferred-console kernel/printk.c --- a/kernel/printk.c~console-console-handover-to-preferred-console +++ a/kernel/printk.c @@ -985,12 +985,15 @@ void register_console(struct console *co if (!(console->flags & CON_ENABLED)) return; - if (bootconsole) { + if (bootconsole && (console->flags & CON_CONSDEV)) { printk(KERN_INFO "console handover: boot [%s%d] -> real [%s%d]\n", bootconsole->name, bootconsole->index, console->name, console->index); unregister_console(bootconsole); console->flags &= ~CON_PRINTBUFFER; + } else { + printk(KERN_INFO "console [%s%d] enabled\n", + console->name, console->index); } /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from Yinghai.Lu@xxxxxxx are origin.patch x86-64-disable-the-gart-in-shutdown.patch x86_84-move-iommu-declaration-from-proto-to-iommuh.patch x86_64-change-_map_single-to-static-in-pci_gartc-etc.patch x86_64-geode-hw-random-number-generator-depend-on-x86_3.patch x86_64-get-mp_bus_to_node-as-early.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html