[PATCH 2/3] tty/serial: of_serial: add support for PXA/MMP uarts

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Fri Jan 30 11:51:48 PST 2015


On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Peter Hurley <peter at hurleysoftware.com> wrote:
> On 01/27/2015 11:44 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Peter Hurley <peter at hurleysoftware.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>> Maybe Kconfig should warn if they're both built-in or both modules?
>>
>> Is there a way to do that?
>
> Well, it's not what I had in mind originally, but the diff below
> generates a broken dependencies warning without causing build problems:
>         $ scripts/kconfig/mconf Kconfig
>         warning: (SERIAL_PXA) selects TTYS_DRIVER_PXA which has unmet direct dependencies (TTY && HAS_IOMEM && !TTYS_DRIVER)
>
> (My original idea was thwarted by the requirement that choice/endchoice
> requires prompts).

Okay, but this should be a separate patch. The problem exists with or
without my patch.

> That said, for PXA, I think we agree splitting out a standalone 8250 platform
> driver is the solution.

So after all the discussion, you are okay with the original patch?

Rob

>
> Regards,
> Peter Hurley
>
> --
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig
> index 0fcbcd2..c367542 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig
> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
>  config SERIAL_8250
>         tristate "8250/16550 and compatible serial support"
>         select SERIAL_CORE
> +       select TTYS_DRIVER
>         ---help---
>           This selects whether you want to include the driver for the standard
>           serial ports.  The standard answer is Y.  People who might say N
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> index c79b43c..10c3e27 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> @@ -7,6 +7,13 @@ if TTY
>  menu "Serial drivers"
>         depends on HAS_IOMEM
>
> +config TTYS_DRIVER
> +       tristate
> +
> +config TTYS_DRIVER_PXA
> +       tristate
> +       depends on !TTYS_DRIVER
> +
>  config SERIAL_EARLYCON
>         bool
>         help
> @@ -438,6 +445,7 @@ config SERIAL_PXA
>         bool "PXA serial port support"
>         depends on ARCH_PXA || ARCH_MMP
>         select SERIAL_CORE
> +       select TTYS_DRIVER_PXA
>         help
>           If you have a machine based on an Intel XScale PXA2xx CPU you
>           can enable its onboard serial ports by enabling this option.
>
>



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