Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758693AbaGDQ77 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2014 12:59:59 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f178.google.com ([209.85.217.178]:46221 "EHLO mail-lb0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753247AbaGDQ75 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2014 12:59:57 -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> From: Peter Maydell Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 17:59:35 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] tty: serial: Add 8250-core based omap driver To: Aaro Koskinen Cc: Felipe Balbi , Tony Lindgren , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , lkml - Kernel Mailing List , 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 2 July 2014 20:09, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > When ttyS -> ttyO change was done on OMAP, compatibility was not an issue. > Why should we care about it now? You should have cared about it back then as well -- it was really annoying and required everybody running an OMAP based board to suddenly fix up their userland and command line configs when they got broken by a kernel upgrade. thanks -- PMM -- 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/