Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jul 2014 14:25:56 -0500 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] tty: serial: Add 8250-core based omap driver | From | Robert Nelson <> |
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On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> wrote: > 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?
It would be a good opportunity to force everyone to update their bootloader. ;)
Besides the BeagleBoard forum is quiet now, no one is complaining about that old (ttyS -> ttyO) transition anymore..
I'll just end up carrying a patch like, to support bb.org users over the transition..
https://github.com/RobertCNelson/stable-kernel/blob/v3.7.x/patches/omap_beagle/0004-zeroMAP-Open-your-eyes.patch
Regards,
-- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/
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