On 20 January 2014 15:35, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > I had earlier submitted a patch [1] to remove the hard coded major/minor number for Samsung UART driver, but that was rejected because of userspace breakage. Without this patch, Samsung UART driver can't bind to the hard-coded device node. Changing the default major/minor will also not help to fix the objections raised in [1]. Would you please suggest a way forward? [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/27/2 -- Tushar Behera -- 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
