[PATCH] serial: samsung: fix device name

[Kukjin Kim]

Darius Augulis wrote:
> 
> Hi Kukjin,
> 
Hi ;-)

> please pick up this one to your tree too.
> 

As I still thinking, this should be handled by Ben Dooks.

And please refer to below Ben's comments about this.

> Thanks,
> 
> Darius.
> 
> On 08/06/2010 10:23 AM, Kukjin Kim wrote:
> > Joonyoung Shim wrote:
> >>
> >> On 8/6/2010 3:47 PM, Paulius Zaleckas wrote:
> >>> On 08/06/2010 03:04 AM, Kyungmin Park wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> It's already posted by Mr. Shim
> >>>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=127410047306149&w=2
> >>>
> >>> Darius patch is a little bit cleaner.
> >>>
> >>
> >> OK, it's better.
> >>
> >> Acked-by: Joonyoung Shim<jy0922.shim at samsung.com>
> >>
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I think, this should be handled by Ben Dooks....
> > As Kyungmin Park said, there was his comment about this.
> >
> > This is just for your information....
> >
> > ===
> >
> > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:52:13PM +0900, Joonyoung Shim wrote:
> >> On 5/18/2010 11:48 AM, Ben Dooks wrote:
> >>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 09:46:50PM +0900, Joonyoung Shim wrote:
> >>>> Thd dev_name and driver_name should be switched each other.
> >>>
> >>> Hmm, this doesn't seem to have appeard on the linux-arm-kernel list
yet.
> >>>
> >>> Please provide some information about what problem that this is fixing
> >>> and the impact on any existing systems.
> >>>
> >>
> >> The serial device nodes are created to s3c2410_serial* on android
> >> platform instead of ttySAC*.
> >
> > This has been how they've been for ages, surely the android device node
> > creation sytstem supports symlinking /dev/SACx ->  /dev/s3c2410_serialx,
> > like many other operating sysyerms that can already do this.
> >
> > Changing this just because android (something as-yet unmerged into
mainline)
> > does not like it. I'm not even happy with an #ifdef around this.
> >
> > If you really feel this is a problem that you absolutely must fix in
kernel
> > then please provide a kernel commandline option to change the serial
driver
> > name and use that on any platform that needs it. Another way would be to
> > update the serial platform data to have a field for which name to
choose.
> >


Thanks.

Best regards,
Kgene.
--
Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim at samsung.com>, Senior Engineer,
SW Solution Development Team, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.