Re: [PATCH] allow alternative name for PXA serial console

Сергей Янович
2013-03-12T23:35:00Z

On 13 March 2013 03:10, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 03:02:22AM +0400, Sergey Yanovich wrote:
>> +config SERIAL_PXA_TTYSA_NAME
>> + bool "as /dev/ttySA[0-3]"
>
> Does that config text really make sense? What does it look like when
> you run "make oldconfig"?

--------------------
* Non-8250 serial port support
*
PXA serial port support (SERIAL_PXA) [Y/n/?] y
Console on PXA serial port (SERIAL_PXA_CONSOLE) [Y/n/?] y
as /dev/ttySA[0-3] (SERIAL_PXA_TTYSA_NAME) [N/y/?] (NEW)
---------------------

So the kernel will have PXA serial port, a console on it, and it will
have a name (and numbers) /dev/ttySA0 to /dev/ttySA3.

>> ICP DAS LP-8x4x is an industrial data acquision device. It is based
>> on PXA270 CPU. The board containsi a lot of (up to 36) standard UARTi
>> 8250i serial ports. System console on the board is provided with
>> an on-chip PXA serial port. Both modules use /dev/ttyS0 by default.
>>
>> To solve the collision, PXA ports could be configured with different
>> name and device numbers.

> Ugh, why does it matter what it is named?
>
> Use udev, or a tool like it, to rename serial ports if you really need
> it, don't do this in the kernel please.

It doesn't matter what it is named. It matters that both drivers try
to use the same major device number. I have to change major device
number for PXA tty, as a result I need a different name in /dev

Maybe I am missing something obvious, but it seems that such a
collision is a kernel bug. Someone assumed that PXA cannot have a 8250
tty device and used 8250's parameters in PXA tty driver.