[RFC PATCH] tty: serial: Add 8250-core based omap driver

Aaro Koskinen aaro.koskinen at iki.fi
Wed Jul 2 12:09:44 PDT 2014


Hi,

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:09:32AM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > It has been only tested as console UART.
> > The tty name is ttyS based instead of ttyO. How big is the pain here,
> > what could be the easiest way to provide compatibility?
> 
> have been considering that myself for months. You could pass an optional
> argument to serial8250_register_8250_port() but that only solves part of
> the problem :-(

When ttyS -> ttyO change was done on OMAP, compatibility was not an issue.
Why should we care about it now?

A.



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