From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933072AbaLAXYD (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2014 18:24:03 -0500 Received: from filtteri1.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.184]:40004 "EHLO filtteri1.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932700AbaLAXYA (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2014 18:24:00 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 607 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2014 18:24:00 EST Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 01:13:38 +0200 From: Aaro Koskinen To: One Thousand Gnomes Cc: Tony Lindgren , 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: <20141201231338.GA14524@fuloong-minipc.musicnaut.iki.fi> References: <1417039306-2384-1-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de> <20141129094823.GA10840@linutronix.de> <20141129173418.GY2817@atomide.com> <20141201140914.728aaa46@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141201140914.728aaa46@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> 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 Hi, 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 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. People also use serial console to observe the early kernel boot before the userspace is started. A.