Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757315AbaGBTZ7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2014 15:25:59 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f180.google.com ([209.85.223.180]:41938 "EHLO mail-ie0-f180.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754430AbaGBTZ5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2014 15:25:57 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20140702190944.GA567@drone.musicnaut.iki.fi> References: <1404316809-20637-1-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de> <20140702160932.GF5541@saruman.home> <20140702190944.GA567@drone.musicnaut.iki.fi> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 14:25:56 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] tty: serial: Add 8250-core based omap driver From: Robert Nelson To: Aaro Koskinen Cc: Felipe Balbi , Tony Lindgren , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , linux kernel , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Linux OMAP Mailing List , Linux ARM Kernel Mailing List 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 Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > 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? It would be a good opportunity to force everyone to update their bootloader. ;) Besides the BeagleBoard forum is quiet now, no one is complaining about that old (ttyS -> ttyO) transition anymore.. I'll just end up carrying a patch like, to support bb.org users over the transition.. https://github.com/RobertCNelson/stable-kernel/blob/v3.7.x/patches/omap_beagle/0004-zeroMAP-Open-your-eyes.patch Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- 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/