[PATCH 5.10 122/147] serial: imx: change SERIAL_IMX_CONSOLE to bool

Sasha Levin
2026-02-28T18:19:13Z

From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

[ Upstream commit 79527d86ba91c2d9354832d19fd12b3baa66bd10 ]

SERIAL_IMX_CONSOLE is a build option for the imx driver (SERIAL_IMX).
It does not build a separate console driver file, so it can't be built
as a module since it isn't built at all.

Change the Kconfig symbol from tristate to bool and update the help
text accordingly.

Fixes: 0db4f9b91c86 ("tty: serial: imx: enable imx serial console port as module")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260110232643.3533351-2-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
index 1ddaa5e7d4906..324787c2616c5 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
@@ -504,14 +504,14 @@ config SERIAL_IMX
can enable its onboard serial port by enabling this option.

config SERIAL_IMX_CONSOLE
- tristate "Console on IMX serial port"
+ bool "Console on IMX serial port"
depends on SERIAL_IMX
select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
help
If you have enabled the serial port on the Freescale IMX
- CPU you can make it the console by answering Y/M to this option.
+ CPU you can make it the console by answering Y to this option.

- Even if you say Y/M here, the currently visible virtual console
+ Even if you say Y here, the currently visible virtual console
(/dev/tty0) will still be used as the system console by default, but
you can alter that using a kernel command line option such as
"console=ttymxc0". (Try "man bootparam" or see the documentation of
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