On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 01:28:51PM +0400, Sergei Ianovich wrote: > On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 00:17 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > > I may be able to - one of the downsides though is that many of these > > systems had hard-coded scripts which started a getty on the original > > port - and that kind of makes it difficult to sort out. This kind of > > change becomes very much one of Linus' "flag days". > > > So I'd suggest that we have a period where the old driver is still > > available, so at least people can choose to use the old major/minor > > numbers for a while. > > The patch doesn't change how the driver looks from the outside. The old > driver was using 8250 name (ttyS), major (4) and first minor (64). So we > only resolve an internal conflict. I don't understand why /dev/ttyS2 (4,66) changed to /dev/ttyS0 (4,64) after the patch was applied to olpc-kernel/arm-3.5 but, as you say it doesn't change, perhaps there is something between 3.5 and now for me to watch out for. My problem. > Kernel configuration is the place where issues may appear, since the > patch removes CONFIG_SERIAL_PXA_CONSOLE option. I've updated all > in-kernel users. However, out-of-kernel configs will no longer provide > serial console, unless manually reconfigured. Is this the case we should > worry about? OLPC holds an out-of-kernel config (xo_4_defconfig); but no, I don't think we'd have trouble with this. Go for it. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ -- 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
