Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH tty/serial v2 1/1] tty: serial: imx: enable imx serial console port as module

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On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 09:33:20AM +0000, Andy Duan wrote:
> From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2020 4:58 PM
> > On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 04:18:27PM +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.
> > >
> > > v2:
> > >  - fix kbuild error
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@xxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig        | 18 +++++++----
> > >  drivers/tty/serial/Makefile       |  1 +
> > >  drivers/tty/serial/imx.c          | 37 ++---------------------
> > >  drivers/tty/serial/imx_earlycon.c | 50
> > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  4 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> > > index 780908d43557..dabd06ca9b66 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> > > @@ -502,20 +502,28 @@ 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 on OF
> > > +     select SERIAL_EARLYCON
> > > +     default y
> > 
> > Only put "default y" if you can not boot a machine without this.
> > Otherwise leave the default line off, it will be 'n' and can be selected if a user
> > wants that.
> > 
> > That should be the case here, please change this.
> 
> I will change it to "default n" in next version, thanks.

No, just remove the line, the default is 'n' with no default specified.

thanks,

greg k-h



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