From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Lindgren Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: serial-omap: depend on !8250_omap Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 08:38:13 -0800 Message-ID: <20141201163813.GA2817@atomide.com> 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 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141201140914.728aaa46@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: One Thousand Gnomes 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 List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org * One Thousand Gnomes [141201 06:11]: > > 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. How do you suggest we get people to update their kernel command line and inittab? Udev may not even be installed. Regards, Tony