[PATCH] Allow platforms to control which PXA uarts are registered

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Fri Nov 6 13:36:06 EST 2009


On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 06:42:06PM +0200, Juergen Schindele wrote:
> Dear Russell,
> this is a good idea because not all PXA based designs use all
> of the available uarts. 
> I think it would be even better if you could give the order of the
> UARTS at the same time in the platform initialisation.

No.  We did that with SA11x0 CPUs and it turned into a mess - it
became very difficult to sort out "my ttySA1 doesn't work" problems
because no one knew what port ttySA1 actually corresponded with.



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