On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 06:52:10PM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've been toying with the idea of removing > drivers/tty/serial/omap-serial.c since that's, to put it bluntly, an > ungly copy of 8250 driver. > > The original concern was wrt suspend/resume but I think it'd be a far > better approach to implement runtime PM in 8250 and write a rather small > 8250-omap.c glue (much like 8250-acorn.c or 8250-dw.c) just to get the > OMAP-specific details out of the way. > > The question I have is: omap-serial.c calls the serial devnodes ttyO\d, > instead of ttyS\d so removing omap-serial.c would have a direct impact > in userland. I wonder if it's an acceptable "regression" considering > we'd be able to reuse 8250 gaining proper Flow Control support, proper > DMA support, years and years of bug-fixes, etc. Breaking device node names is a contentious issue for serial ports, I don't think you can do that :( -- 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
