Hi,

On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 10:26:14AM +0400, Sergei Ianovich wrote:
> PXA serial ports have "standard" UART names (ttyS[0-3]), major
> device number (4) and first minor device number (64) by default.
> 
> If the system has extra 8250 serial port hardware in addition
> to onboard PXA serial ports, default settings produce a device
> allocation conflict.
> 
> The patch provides a configuration option which can move onboard
> ports out of the way of 8250_core by assigning a different (204)
> major number and corresponding device names (ttySA[0-3]).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sergei Ianovich <ynv...@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/tty/serial/pxa.c   | 22 ++++++++++++++++++----
>  2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/pxa.c b/drivers/tty/serial/pxa.c

<snip>

> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/pxa.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/pxa.c
> @@ -593,6 +593,20 @@ serial_pxa_type(struct uart_port *port)
>  static struct uart_pxa_port *serial_pxa_ports[4];
>  static struct uart_driver serial_pxa_reg;
>  
> +#ifndef CONFIG_SERIAL_PXA_AS_TTYSA
> +
> +#define PXA_TTY_NAME "ttyS"
> +#define PXA_TTY_MAJOR        TTY_MAJOR
> +#define PXA_TTY_MINOR        64
> +
> +#else
> +
> +#define PXA_TTY_NAME "ttySA"
> +#define PXA_TTY_MAJOR        204
> +#define PXA_TTY_MINOR        5
> +
> +#endif
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_PXA_CONSOLE
>  
>  #define BOTH_EMPTY (UART_LSR_TEMT | UART_LSR_THRE)
> @@ -751,7 +765,7 @@ serial_pxa_console_setup(struct console *co, char 
> *options)
>  }
>  
>  static struct console serial_pxa_console = {
> -     .name           = "ttyS",
> +     .name           = PXA_TTY_NAME,
>       .write          = serial_pxa_console_write,
>       .device         = uart_console_device,
>       .setup          = serial_pxa_console_setup,
> @@ -792,9 +806,9 @@ static struct uart_ops serial_pxa_pops = {
>  static struct uart_driver serial_pxa_reg = {
>       .owner          = THIS_MODULE,
>       .driver_name    = "PXA serial",
> -     .dev_name       = "ttyS",
> -     .major          = TTY_MAJOR,
> -     .minor          = 64,
> +     .dev_name       = PXA_TTY_NAME,
> +     .major          = PXA_TTY_MAJOR,
> +     .minor          = PXA_TTY_MINOR,
>       .nr             = 4,
>       .cons           = PXA_CONSOLE,
>  };

If drivers/tty/serial/pxa.c was converted to an other probe driver for
the 8250, this would not be an issue.

Br,

-- 
heikki
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