Hi all, This is a series that I've been playing with over the last few days to clean up the selection of default console devices when using the device tree. The device tree defines a way of specifying the console by using a "stdout-path" property in the /chosen node, but very few drivers actually attempt to use that data, and so for most platforms there needs to be a "console=" line in the command line if a serial port is intended to be used as the console. With this series, if there is a /chosen/stdout-path property, and if that property points to a serial port node, then when the serial driver registers the port, the core uart_add_one_port() function will notice and if no console= argument was provided then add it as a preferred console. I've not tested this very extensively yet, but I want to get some feedback before I go further. The one downside with this approach is that it doesn't do anything for early console setup. That still needs to be added on a per-driver basis, but at least it shouldn't conflict with this approach. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
