Re: serial: of-serial: fetch line number from DT

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On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:41:39PM +0100, Lucas Stach wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Am Dienstag, den 11.11.2014, 08:51 -0800 schrieb Olof Johansson:
> > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 01:34:19PM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > >> Greg,
> > >>
> > >> This commit:
> > >>
> > >> commit 1bd8324535ec1ff44aef55c0e40b9e7d56b310fb
> > >> Author: Lucas Stach <dev@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> Date:   Mon Nov 3 23:16:54 2014 +0100
> > >>
> > >>     serial: of-serial: fetch line number from DT
> > >>
> > >>     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>
> > >>     Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Broke a whole lot of tegra boards in last night's -next here. In
> > >> particular, I've been looking at tegra20-seaboard, which now doesn't
> > >> boot with console any more.
> > >>
> > >> http://arm-soc.lixom.net/bootlogs/next/next-20141110/
> > >>
> > >> Unfortunately, tegra has for a long time been specifying the aliases
> > >> as a fixed 1:1 mapping, but most environments rely on ttyS0 being the
> > >> first _activated_ serial port. That's obviously going to break things
> > >> here. :(
> > >>
> > >> Greg, can you please revert until we get the tegra-side fixes in for
> > >> this, or we're in for a pretty lousy time w.r.t. bisecting problems
> > >> across the two mergepoints?
> > >>
> > >> Stephen: I suppose the best way to handle this on tegra is to specify
> > >> the aliases per-board instead of in the soc dtsi today.
> > >>
> > >> Apologies for not replying to the patch directly -- it was only ever
> > >> posted to linux-serial and I don't seem to be subscribed.
> > >
> > > Now reverted, sorry for the problems.
> > 
> > No worries, it's what linux-next is for. Thanks for the revert!
> > 
> As 3.18-rc6 now landed the fix to avoid the regression on Tegra would
> you please consider reapplying this patch?

What patch?  Please resend it, AND, get everyone to agree that it's not
going to break anything.

greg k-h
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