From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753902AbaLAOKt (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2014 09:10:49 -0500 Received: from 251.110.2.81.in-addr.arpa ([81.2.110.251]:53214 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753625AbaLAOKr (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2014 09:10:47 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 14:09:14 +0000 From: One Thousand Gnomes To: Tony Lindgren Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Sekhar Nori , Felipe Balbi , uwe@kleine-koenig.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: serial-omap: depend on !8250_omap Message-ID: <20141201140914.728aaa46@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20141129173418.GY2817@atomide.com> References: <1417039306-2384-1-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de> <20141129094823.GA10840@linutronix.de> <20141129173418.GY2817@atomide.com> Organization: Intel Corporation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.24; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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. Alan