[PATCH] Docs/kernel-parameters: Add earlycon devicetree usage

From	Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH] Docs/kernel-parameters: Add earlycon devicetree usage
Date	2015-09-15 03:00 +0200
Message-ID	<q8MLf-5WC-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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This form of the earlycon parameter was added by commit fb11ffe74c794a5
("of/fdt: add FDT serial scanning for earlycon") without documentation.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 22a4b68..d461320 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -971,6 +971,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
 	earlycon=	[KNL] Output early console device and options.
 
+			When used with no options, the early console is
+			determined by the stdout-path property in device
+			tree's chosen node.
+
 		cdns,<addr>
 			Start an early, polled-mode console on a cadence serial
 			port at the specified address. The cadence serial port
-- 
2.1.4
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