RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH tty/serial 1/1] tty: serial: imx: enable imx serial console port as module

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From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2020 10:23 PM
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 04:43:21PM +0800, Fugang Duan wrote:
> > GKI kernel requires drivers built as modules including console driver,
> > so add the support that imx serial console driver can be built as
> > module.
> >
> > The changes of the patch:
> > - imx console driver can be built as module.
> > - move out earlycon code to separated driver like imx_earlycon.c,
> >   and imx earlycon driver only support build-in.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig        | 17 +++++++----
> >  drivers/tty/serial/Makefile       |  1 +
> >  drivers/tty/serial/imx.c          | 37 ++---------------------
> >  drivers/tty/serial/imx_earlycon.c | 50
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  4 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> > index adf9e80e7dc9..890cbf214561 100644
> > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> > @@ -502,20 +502,27 @@ config SERIAL_IMX
> >         can enable its onboard serial port by enabling this option.
> >
> >  config SERIAL_IMX_CONSOLE
> > -     bool "Console on IMX serial port"
> > -     depends on SERIAL_IMX=y
> > +     tristate "Console on IMX serial port"
> > +     depends on SERIAL_IMX
> >       select SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE
> > -     select SERIAL_EARLYCON if OF
> >       help
> >         If you have enabled the serial port on the Freescale IMX
> > -       CPU you can make it the console by answering Y to this option.
> > +       CPU you can make it the console by answering Y/M to this option.
> >
> > -       Even if you say Y here, the currently visible virtual console
> > +       Even if you say Y/M here, the currently visible virtual
> > + console
> >         (/dev/tty0) will still be used as the system console by default, but
> >         you can alter that using a kernel command line option such as
> >         "console=ttymxc0". (Try "man bootparam" or see the
> documentation of
> >         your bootloader about how to pass options to the kernel at
> > boot time.)
> >
> > +config SERIAL_IMX_EARLYCON
> > +     bool "Earlycon on IMX serial port"
> > +     depends OF
> > +     select SERIAL_EARLYCON if OF
> > +     help
> > +       If you have enabled the earlycon on the Freescale IMX
> > +       CPU you can make it the earlycon by answering Y to this option.
> > +
> 
> Did you test this?
> 
> I get the folllowing errors with this patch:
>         scripts/kconfig/conf  --oldconfig Kconfig
>         drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig:521: syntax error
>         drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig:520: invalid statement
>         drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig:521: invalid statement
>         drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig:522: invalid statement
>         drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig:523: unknown statement "If"
>         drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig:524:warning: ignoring unsupported
> character '.'
>         drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig:524: unknown statement "CPU"
>         make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/Makefile:71: oldconfig] Error 1
>         make: *** [Makefile:606: oldconfig] Error 2
> 
> I'll let you make the obvious fix and actually test it this time before
> resending :)
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Sorry for inconvenient things, I will double check and tested it before resending.
Thanks. 




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