If amba serial driver is probed defer, amba serial driver may be probed after init process. So the error log shows in below. [ 0.389403] Warning: unable to open an initial console. [ 0.390107] Freeing init memory: 2328K It results in serial console not enabled. So replace arch_initcall by module_init on pl011_init(). The boot sequence is changed in below. pinctrl driver --> amba serial driver --> init process Signed-off-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c b/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c index d43d530..8b7dacb 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c @@ -2129,11 +2129,7 @@ static void __exit pl011_exit(void) uart_unregister_driver(&amba_reg); } -/* - * While this can be a module, if builtin it's most likely the console - * So let's leave module_exit but move module_init to an earlier place - */ -arch_initcall(pl011_init); +module_init(pl011_init); module_exit(pl011_exit); MODULE_AUTHOR("ARM Ltd/Deep Blue Solutions Ltd"); -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html