On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:08:00AM -0700, Grant Likely wrote: > 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. I gave it a test on i.MX. It works as expected with both linux,stdout-path and stdout-path. Specifying a console on the commandline still works and overrides the devicetree setting. Tested-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- 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
