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From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: "George G. Davis" <gdavis@mvista.com>
Cc: linux-omap-open-source@linux.omap.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: Add driver for OMAP UARTs
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:06:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070417200639.GG26287@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070412133710.GA9104@mvista.com>

* George G. Davis <gdavis@mvista.com> [070412 13:42]:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:44:33PM +0300, Juha Yrjölä wrote:
> > +static struct uart_driver serial_omap_reg = {
> > +	.owner		= THIS_MODULE,
> > +	.driver_name	= "OMAP serial",
> 
> You may want to reconsider ".driver_name" otherwise I suspect this may
> appear as:
> 
> 	"/proc/tty/driver/OMAP serial"
> 
> Yuck.  : )
> 
> > +	.dev_name	= "ttyS",
> > +	.major		= TTY_MAJOR,
> > +	.minor		= 64,
> > +	.nr		= 3,
> > +	.cons		= OMAP_CONSOLE,
> > +};

Also one thing that needs to be verified is that using ttyS may
conflict with standard 8250 add-on ports, such as CF/PCMCIA modems
or bluetooth devices. At least it used to be that the non 8250 serial
ports must use a different name because of this issue.

Regards,

Tony

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-17 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-09 20:44 [PATCH] serial: Add driver for OMAP UARTs Juha Yrjölä
2007-04-10  5:36 ` Syed Mohammed, Khasim
2007-04-10 10:07   ` Juha Yrjola
2007-04-10 12:28 ` Ville Tervo
2007-04-12 13:37 ` George G. Davis
2007-04-12 14:23   ` Testing SPI on omap5912 Raja Mallik
2007-04-17 20:06   ` Tony Lindgren [this message]

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