patch "Revert "tty: serial: 8250: add CON_CONSDEV to flags"" added to tty-linus

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

Revert "tty: serial: 8250: add CON_CONSDEV to flags"

to my tty git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git
in the tty-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 10:05:49 +0800
Subject: Revert "tty: serial: 8250: add CON_CONSDEV to flags"

This commit needs to be reverted because it prevents people from using the serial console as a secondary console with input being directed to tty0.

IOW, if you boot with console=ttyS0 console=tty0 then all kernels prior to this commit will produce output on both ttyS0 and tty0 but input will only be taken from tty0. With this patch the serial console will always be the primary console instead of tty0, potentially preventing people from getting into their machines in emergency situations.

---
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

index 61569a765d9e..76e03a7de9cc 100644
@@ -675,7 +675,7 @@ static struct console univ8250_console = {
 	.device		= uart_console_device,
 	.setup		= univ8250_console_setup,
 	.match		= univ8250_console_match,
-	.flags		= CON_PRINTBUFFER | CON_ANYTIME | CON_CONSDEV,
+	.flags		= CON_PRINTBUFFER | CON_ANYTIME,
 	.index		= -1,
 	.data		= &serial8250_reg,
 };

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