On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:36:53PM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:10:30AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > > > On the support side, I'm not looking forward to this for beagle/panda > > > > users. We've already converted them once from ttySx -> ttyOx back in > > > > 2.6.33/2.6.34? days. That was an irc/email/u-boot/kernel nightmare... > > > > > > that's exactly why we're talking about ways to maintain backwards > > > compatibility here. But I'm more interested in finding a way to switch > > > over to ttyS and have a symlink to ttyO, that way a simple debootstrap > > > (or any other ARM distro minimal rootfs) would work out of the box, > > > without any changes, just like in "normal" systems. > > > > Yeah let's not break things. The symlink solution won't work for kernel > > again. Let's not break things again. > > > console output so it needs to be dealt with some other way. > > it would if kernel itself would create the symlink, but that might not > be doable in a clean way. The kernel isn't going to create the symlink, sorry, no. -- 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
