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

Aaro Koskinen aaro.koskinen at iki.fi
Mon Dec 1 15:13:38 PST 2014


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.

A.



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