Re: [RFC][PATCH] Way for platforms to alter built-in serial ports

[Russell King]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:39:25AM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Monday 01 November 2004 10:15 am, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > The problem is that 'console=ttySx' doesn't actually do anything unless
> > port numer 'x' is already registered and working. We should fix that --
> > we ought to be able to use 'console=ttySx' on the command line and have
> > the console get registered with the core printk code later, when some
> > 8250 sub-driver (8250_platform, 8250_pci, etc.) actually registers the
> > port which becomes number 'x'. 
> 
> See serial8250_late_console_init(); does this do what you want?

This call can now be removed - for any serial device, we keep registering
the console each time a new port is added until it successfully registers.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
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