[RFC 3/5] of: Enable console on serial ports specified by /chosen/stdout-path

[Grant Likely]

If the devicetree specifies a serial port as a stdout device, then the
kernel can use it as the default console if nothing else was selected on
the command line. For any serial port that uses the uart_add_one_port()
feature, the uart_add_one_port() has all the information needed to
automatically enable the console device, which is what this patch does.

With this change applied, a device tree platform can be booted without
any console= parameters on the command line and the kernel will still be
able to determine its console.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
index ece2049bd270..2fac7593d7b2 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/console.h>
+#include <linux/of.h>
 #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
 #include <linux/seq_file.h>
 #include <linux/device.h>
@@ -2604,6 +2605,8 @@ int uart_add_one_port(struct uart_driver *drv, struct uart_port *uport)
 		spin_lock_init(&uport->lock);
 		lockdep_set_class(&uport->lock, &port_lock_key);
 	}
+	if (uport->cons && uport->dev)
+		of_console_check(uport->dev->of_node, uport->cons->name, uport->line);
 
 	uart_configure_port(drv, state, uport);
 
-- 
1.8.3.2

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