* Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx> [141021 13:08]: > On 10/21/2014 02:57 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 October 2014 11:18:15 Nishanth Menon wrote: > >> Add serial port aliases for consoles > 6. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx> > >> --- > >> arch/arm/boot/dts/dra7.dtsi | 4 ++++ > >> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > >> > >> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/dra7.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/dra7.dtsi > >> index 9cc9843..208dd83 100644 > >> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/dra7.dtsi > >> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/dra7.dtsi > >> @@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ > >> serial3 = &uart4; > >> serial4 = &uart5; > >> serial5 = &uart6; > >> + serial6 = &uart7; > >> + serial7 = &uart8; > >> + serial8 = &uart9; > >> + serial9 = &uart10; > >> > > > > I think this was wrong to start with: The aliases should be in the per-board > > .dts file and only list the ones that are actually connected to the outside. > > > > Otherwise the numbering won't match what's written on the board. > > At least in the case of DRA7 boards, they are not written specifically > since they come out over onboard FTDI usb2serial. > > This will at least ensure that /dev/ttyO9 will always point to uart10 > no matter the board, instead of having ttyO0 always pointing to > console serial port no matter the board (and having to guess which > figure out it actually was aliased to). It seems that having the UART numbering make sense is a good reason to apply this one. So applying into omap-for-v3.19/dt. Regards, Tony -- 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
