Building serial_cs.ko (PXA serial 8250 conflict)

[Russell King]

On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 06:15:04PM -0400, Nathan M wrote:
> Something like the following to be added to 8250.c would prevent a
> musical chairs issue with /dev/ttyS0 - /dev/ttyS2:

Wrong.  It's complete crap.  It may look like it solves the problem
but it just papers over the problem.

For example, using console=ttyS0 vs console=ttyS3 does not do what's
expected - there's no guarantee that one or other driver will end up
being the console.

> From what you say, it sounds like this modification shouldn't have
> been necessary if the PXA team had followed the standards, however it
> looks like my issue could be resolved if I made these mods?  You're
> thoughts, suggestions?

Due to the above, re-using the namespace is just not on for mainline
kernels.  Sorry.

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Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core