On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:09:32AM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote: >> > It has been only tested as console UART. >> > The tty name is ttyS based instead of ttyO. How big is the pain here, >> > what could be the easiest way to provide compatibility? >> >> have been considering that myself for months. You could pass an optional >> argument to serial8250_register_8250_port() but that only solves part of >> the problem :-( > > When ttyS -> ttyO change was done on OMAP, compatibility was not an issue. > Why should we care about it now? It would be a good opportunity to force everyone to update their bootloader. ;) Besides the BeagleBoard forum is quiet now, no one is complaining about that old (ttyS -> ttyO) transition anymore.. I'll just end up carrying a patch like, to support bb.org users over the transition.. https://github.com/RobertCNelson/stable-kernel/blob/v3.7.x/patches/omap_beagle/0004-zeroMAP-Open-your-eyes.patch Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- 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
