Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: serial-omap: depend on !8250_omap

[One Thousand Gnomes]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 19:51:18 -0600
Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 01:13:38AM +0200, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 02:09:14PM +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > 
> > People also use serial console to observe the early kernel boot before
> > the userspace is started.
> 
> right, we need a way to tell the kernel that ttyO%d and ttyS%d are the
> exact same device so that console=ttyO0 and console=ttyS0 mean the same
> thing. That maintains backwards compatibility and lets people move on

Yes.. and that possibly also means a temporary char driver that claims
ttyO* and simply redirects the calls into the tty.
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