The general agreed way to specify a fixed line number for a serial console is to provide a "serial" alias in the devicetree. Start parsing this property in of_serial. Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <dev@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c index 8bc2563..920a831 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/of_serial.c @@ -101,6 +101,10 @@ static int of_platform_serial_setup(struct platform_device *ofdev, if (of_property_read_u32(np, "fifo-size", &prop) == 0) port->fifosize = prop; + /* Check for a fixed line number */ + if ((ret = of_alias_get_id(np, "serial")) >= 0) + port->line = ret; + port->irq = irq_of_parse_and_map(np, 0); port->iotype = UPIO_MEM; if (of_property_read_u32(np, "reg-io-width", &prop) == 0) { -- 1.9.3 -- 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