Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757085AbaGBTJz (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2014 15:09:55 -0400 Received: from filtteri6.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.189]:42203 "EHLO filtteri6.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751809AbaGBTJx (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2014 15:09:53 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 22:09:44 +0300 From: Aaro Koskinen To: Felipe Balbi Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux OMAP Mailing List , Linux ARM Kernel Mailing List , Tony Lindgren Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] tty: serial: Add 8250-core based omap driver Message-ID: <20140702190944.GA567@drone.musicnaut.iki.fi> References: <1404316809-20637-1-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de> <20140702160932.GF5541@saruman.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140702160932.GF5541@saruman.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:09:32AM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote: > > It has been only tested as console UART. > > The tty name is ttyS based instead of ttyO. How big is the pain here, > > what could be the easiest way to provide compatibility? > > have been considering that myself for months. You could pass an optional > argument to serial8250_register_8250_port() but that only solves part of > the problem :-( When ttyS -> ttyO change was done on OMAP, compatibility was not an issue. Why should we care about it now? A. -- 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/