Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932689AbaLBBwL (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2014 20:52:11 -0500 Received: from comal.ext.ti.com ([198.47.26.152]:52118 "EHLO comal.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753424AbaLBBwK (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2014 20:52:10 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 19:51:18 -0600 From: Felipe Balbi To: Aaro Koskinen CC: One Thousand Gnomes , Tony Lindgren , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , , Greg Kroah-Hartman , , , , Sekhar Nori , Felipe Balbi , Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: serial-omap: depend on !8250_omap Message-ID: <20141202015118.GA1891@saruman> Reply-To: References: <1417039306-2384-1-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de> <20141129094823.GA10840@linutronix.de> <20141129173418.GY2817@atomide.com> <20141201140914.728aaa46@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20141201231338.GA14524@fuloong-minipc.musicnaut.iki.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141201231338.GA14524@fuloong-minipc.musicnaut.iki.fi> 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 --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 01:13:38AM +0200, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > Hi, >=20 > On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 02:09:14PM +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > > > 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 ma= ke > > > serial-omap.c transparently provide support for ttyO using the new 82= 50 > > > code so both ttyS and ttyO devices would just work. Otherwise it will > > > be years of "my serial port stopped working" questions again. > >=20 > > Thata a udev problem not a kernel one surely. >=20 > People also use serial console to observe the early kernel boot before > the userspace is started. right, we need a way to tell the kernel that ttyO%d and ttyS%d are the exact same device so that console=3DttyO0 and console=3DttyS0 mean the same thing. That maintains backwards compatibility and lets people move on --=20 balbi --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUfRsWAAoJEIaOsuA1yqRErUsQAJA0mMvj/k5W7dCe5rAQ6FjD wcFKbU52iQvQVwT5M798eW1egOzt9IKPQ2ykIE5Da6ozkAKCH/CHfU8jwC2DkLvP SkzfhyOk/U+lQNimBZBLnoW6GggMx45OzumABuiJR+Ak3kfixAHQNedPvTHl10mg yN318m4QPf9Bt50Hp236H7uT7sd1Y6z4mtMS34Nu6LPJqKsJVvIvobl46PDCLRua kzxa1dyv4SL1YI/6WnN6SDigf01WKLaTabkPQGd8Q2Cmdxv3kshDQQ2maXPndl4b NSegaR6S7YAPa39VTB9Nwa1Z/MXyrZoVsifzWR8dM5+QG3skIr12l7gominRcn8e uGdrKTpIEXYBULeodjIma5MtqTbdQCgPrx2/lK2ecAeiXLantaB5A08an2cwt4Xv BkVJYWFzFQiwvw/RrhgofmOZNy0F9E7ee20efUwYhfWADs6dS9HTabkdz7+wHBRZ pWaOk2zMPpvBWeTYTsDJW9uXZQ6L98gs6H7C0tACZZ7Ri9syG8HFVwH94T70jyvF zVRF85ZOp340W8JhrtYW0huHT4h/5+SwAo/ONODBAKnNAI0hAuMrfjLRJg4xnhGy ZqPrnVlcRYgBfuW+a78Q+4jV6UtMrJ5FuDxppC+Kq52gIzD9K/mu4KJp1WbEWI8s 1ohZeS2I4WqpFz8yr6In =VBGz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE-- -- 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/