On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 04:02:53PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 03:28:37AM +0400, Sergei Ianovich wrote: > > pxa2xx-uart was a separate uart platform driver. It was declaring > > the same device names and numbers as 8250 driver. As a result, > > it was impossible to use 8250 driver on PXA SoCs. > > > > Upon closer examination pxa2xx-uart turned out to be a clone of > > 8250_core driver. > > > > Signed-off-by: Sergei Ianovich <[email protected]> > > CC: Heikki Krogerus <[email protected]> > > CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > > Wonderful! > > Can someone else test this to verify it works for them on their platform > as well?
I may be able to - one of the downsides though is that many of these systems had hard-coded scripts which started a getty on the original port - and that kind of makes it difficult to sort out. This kind of change becomes very much one of Linus' "flag days". So I'd suggest that we have a period where the old driver is still available, so at least people can choose to use the old major/minor numbers for a while. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
