[PATCH] x86, setup: fix earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200

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From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Sunday, August 29, 2010 - 6:12 pm

Torsten reported that there is garbage output,
after commit 8fee13a48e4879fba57725f6d9513df4bfa8e9f3 (x86,
setup: enable early console output from the decompressor)

it turns out we missed the offset for that case.

Reported-by: Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ static void parse_earlyprintk(void)
 		if (arg[pos] == ',')
 			pos++;
 
-		if (!strncmp(arg, "ttyS", 4)) {
+		if (!strncmp(arg + pos, "ttyS", 4)) {
 			static const int bases[] = { 0x3f8, 0x2f8 };
 			int idx = 0;
 

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Linux 2.6.36-rc3, Linus Torvalds, (Sun Aug 29, 10:25 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc3, Chris Ball, (Sun Aug 29, 12:24 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc3, Torsten Kaiser, (Sun Aug 29, 12:24 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc3, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 29, 3:27 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc3, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 29, 3:36 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc3, Jean-Denis Girard, (Sun Aug 29, 3:40 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc3, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 29, 3:53 pm)
[PATCH] x86, setup: fix earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 29, 6:12 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc3, Torsten Kaiser, (Sun Aug 29, 9:50 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc3, Borislav Petkov, (Sun Aug 29, 10:23 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc3, Jean-Denis Girard, (Mon Aug 30, 1:00 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc3, Miguel Calleja, (Mon Aug 30, 1:47 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc3, Suresh Jayaraman, (Mon Aug 30, 10:00 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc3, Shirish Pargaonkar, (Mon Aug 30, 10:14 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc3, Randy Dunlap, (Mon Aug 30, 10:25 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc3, Piotr Hosowicz, (Mon Aug 30, 12:28 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc3, Steve French, (Mon Aug 30, 2:27 pm)
[tip:x86/urgent] x86, setup: Fix earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0, ..., tip-bot for Yinghai Lu, (Tue Sep 21, 12:58 pm)
[tip:x86/urgent] x86, setup: Fix earlyprintk=serial,0x3f8, ..., tip-bot for Yinghai Lu, (Tue Sep 21, 12:58 pm)
Early console confusion, Bjorn Helgaas, (Wed Sep 22, 8:12 am)
Re: Early console confusion, H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Sep 22, 8:56 am)
Re: Early console confusion, Bjorn Helgaas, (Wed Sep 22, 9:44 am)
Re: Early console confusion, H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Sep 22, 9:53 am)
Re: Early console confusion, Bjorn Helgaas, (Wed Sep 22, 11:21 am)
Re: Early console confusion, H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Sep 22, 11:26 am)