Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755455AbaFLB2y (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2014 21:28:54 -0400 Received: from mail-vc0-f178.google.com ([209.85.220.178]:41488 "EHLO mail-vc0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754411AbaFLB2x (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2014 21:28:53 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1396022885-6102-1-git-send-email-grant.likely@linaro.org> References: <1396022885-6102-1-git-send-email-grant.likely@linaro.org> From: Rob Herring Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 20:28:31 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC 0/5] of: Automatic console registration cleanups To: Grant Likely Cc: "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , Christoffer Dall , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Olof Johansson , Benjamin Herrenschmidt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Grant Likely wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a series that I've been playing with over the last few days to > clean up the selection of default console devices when using the device > tree. The device tree defines a way of specifying the console by using a > "stdout-path" property in the /chosen node, but very few drivers > actually attempt to use that data, and so for most platforms there needs > to be a "console=" line in the command line if a serial port is intended > to be used as the console. > > With this series, if there is a /chosen/stdout-path property, and if > that property points to a serial port node, then when the serial driver > registers the port, the core uart_add_one_port() function will notice > and if no console= argument was provided then add it as a preferred > console. > > I've not tested this very extensively yet, but I want to get some > feedback before I go further. > > The one downside with this approach is that it doesn't do anything for > early console setup. That still needs to be added on a per-driver basis, > but at least it shouldn't conflict with this approach. Hey, what happened with this series? Rob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/