On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 02:32:34PM +0530, Tushar Behera wrote: > uart_register_driver call binds the driver to a specific device > node through tty_register_driver call. This should typically happen > during device probe call. > > In a multiplatform scenario, it is possible that multiple serial > drivers are part of the kernel. Currently the driver registration fails > if multiple serial drivers with same default major/minor numbers are > included in the kernel. > > A typical case is observed with amba-pl011 and samsung-uart drivers. The samsung-uart driver is at fault here - the major/minor numbers were officially registered to amba-pl011. Samsung needs to be fixed properly. -- FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: 5.8Mbps down 500kbps up. Estimation in database were 13.1 to 19Mbit for a good line, about 7.5+ for a bad. Estimate before purchase was "up to 13.2Mbit". -- 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
