Fixes and cleanups for earlyprintk aka boot console

The console subsystem already has an idea of a boot console, using the
CON_BOOT flag.  The implementation has some flaws though.  The major
problem is that presence of a boot console makes register_console() ignore
any other console devices (unless explicitly specified on the kernel
command line).

This patch fixes the console selection code to *not* consider a boot
console a full-featured one, so the first non-boot console registering will
become the default console instead.  This way the unregister call for the
boot console in the register_console() function actually triggers and the
handover from the boot console to the real console device works smoothly.
Added a printk for the handover, so you know which console device the
output goes to when the boot console stops printing messages.

The disable_early_printk() call is obsolete with that patch, explicitly
disabling the early console isn't needed any more as it works automagically
with that patch.

I've walked through the tree, dropped all disable_early_printk() instances
found below arch/ and tagged the consoles with CON_BOOT if needed.  The
code is tested on x86, sh (thanks to Paul) and mips (thanks to Ralf).

Changes to last version: Rediffed against -rc3, adapted to mips cleanups by
Ralf, fixed "udbg-immortal" cmd line arg on powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@exsuse.de>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/arch/sh64/kernel/early_printk.c b/arch/sh64/kernel/early_printk.c
index 8c8a76e180aa..4f9131123672 100644
--- a/arch/sh64/kernel/early_printk.c
+++ b/arch/sh64/kernel/early_printk.c
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static struct console sh_console = {
         .name           = "scifcon",
         .write          = sh_console_write,
         .setup          = sh_console_setup,
-        .flags          = CON_PRINTBUFFER,
+        .flags          = CON_PRINTBUFFER | CON_BOOT,
         .index          = -1,
 };
 
@@ -97,9 +97,3 @@ void __init enable_early_printk(void)
 
         register_console(&sh_console);
 }
-
-void disable_early_printk(void)
-{
-        unregister_console(&sh_console);
-}
-