On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 01:16:01PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:05:30AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux 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 agree, the Samsung driver is "broken" here, but that's no reason why > these two drivers can't register with the tty layer _after_ the hardware > is detected, and not before. > > That saves resources on systems that build the drivers in, yet do not > have the hardware present, which is always a good thing. Great, so what you're saying is that we need to wait until the first device calls into the probe function. What about removal... how does a driver know when it's last device has been removed to de-register that? I guess it needs the driver model to provide some way to know when a driver is completely unbound - but isn't that racy? -- 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
