Grazvydas Ignotas <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Kevin > Hilman<[email protected]> wrote: >> Kalle Valo <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Omap tags are deprecrated and convert all OMAP_TAG_UART cases to use >>> omap_uart_platform_data instead. >>> >>> Tested on rx51 and n8x0. Compile tested on omap_osk_5912. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <[email protected]> >> >> Rather than converting all the omap_uart_configs into platform_data. >> Any objections to just dropping the platform_data all together? >> >> This is only used for selecting which UARTs to enable at boot time, >> and all the board files simply enable all the UARTs. > > Pandora wasn't enabling all UARTs, as did some other off-tree board > (someone was posting UART questions on this list). This meant that > UART3 was appearing as ttyS0 here, and after this patch it will appear > as ttyS2, which means we will have to update our boot scripts. Not a > huge deal but I'd prefer retaining platform_data.
I think your boot scripts should be fixed. Your problem actually points out another justification for my patch. Having all the UARTs enabled means that the ttyS* names will be consistent across multiple boards and result in much more portable userspace init. Kevin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
