Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 08:38:13 -0800
From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
        linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com>,
        Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>, uwe@kleine-koenig.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: serial-omap: depend on !8250_omap
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* One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> [141201 06:11]:
> > Well the nightmare userspace switch from ttyS to ttyO few years ago is
> > something we want to avoid.. I think the best solution would be to make
> > serial-omap.c transparently provide support for ttyO using the new 8250
> > code so both ttyS and ttyO devices would just work. Otherwise it will
> > be years of "my serial port stopped working" questions again.
> 
> Thata a udev problem not a kernel one surely.

How do you suggest we get people to update their kernel command line
and inittab? Udev may not even be installed.

Regards,

Tony
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