Commit d58ad101 authored Feb 03, 2020 by Andy Shevchenko Committed by Petr Mladek Feb 11, 2020

console: Drop misleading comment

	/* find the last or real console */

This comment is misleading. The purpose of the loop is to check
if we are trying to register boot console after a real one has
already been registered. This is already mentioned in a comment
above.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200203133130.11591-4-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com


To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
[pmladek@suse.com: Updated commit message.]
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>

parent 12825e6b

kernel/printk/printk.c

+0 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2661,7 +2661,6 @@ void register_console(struct console *newcon)
		* already have a valid console
		*/
		if (newcon->flags & CON_BOOT) {
		/* find the last or real console */
		for_each_console(bcon) {
		if (!(bcon->flags & CON_BOOT)) {
		pr_info("Too late to register bootconsole %s%d\n",

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