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

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From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, June 29, 2020 12:00 AM
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 04:23:15PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Given that SERIAL_IMX_EARLYCON depends on OF, the select can be
> unconditional.

Got it, select SERIAL_EARLYCON is unconditional, will update it in v2.
Thanks.




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