> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shilimkar, Santosh 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 12:06 PM
> To: Olof Johansson; G, Manjunath Kondaiah
> Cc: Govindraj; [email protected]; Tony Lindgren; 
> [email protected]; Pandita, Vikram; Raja, Govindraj
> Subject: RE: [PATCHv3 0/3] OMAP UART: Adding support for 
> omap-serial driver.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:linux-omap-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Olof Johansson
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 10:52 PM
> > To: G, Manjunath Kondaiah
> > Cc: Govindraj; [email protected]; Tony Lindgren; linux-
> > [email protected]; Pandita, Vikram; Raja, Govindraj
> > Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 0/3] OMAP UART: Adding support for omap-serial
> > driver.
> > 
> > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 03:04:09PM +0530, G, Manjunath Kondaiah
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Olof Johansson [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > > Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 10:36 PM
> > > > To: Govindraj; [email protected]
> > > > Cc: Tony Lindgren; [email protected]; Pandita,
> > > > Vikram; Raja, Govindraj; G, Manjunath Kondaiah
> > > > Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 0/3] OMAP UART: Adding support for
> > > > omap-serial driver.
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 03:21:26PM +0530, Govindraj wrote:
> > > > > I have not seen any comments on this patch series yet.
> > > > >
> > > > > Tony,
> > > > > Is there something I need to modify?
> > > >
> > > > Govindaj,
> > > >
> > > > I'm having problems with these patches on Zoom2 with debug
> > > > board, since
> > > > they don't seem to coexist very well together with 8250.
> > Enabling both
> > > > options will result in build errors.
> > >
> > > Why do we need to enable both 8250 and omap-serial for console.
> > The console
> > > UART can be either external UART or any one of the omap UART
> > right?
> > 
> > You should allow both of them to be enabled at the same time, so the
> > same
> > kernel can for example be booted on a ZOOM2 with debug board
> > attached
> > (8250 on GPMC), or on a beagle/overo board.
> > 
> > Making them exclusive would be a step backwards.
> 
> More so, selecting both config option really shouldn't break 
> the build. If one expect a build break because only one of 
> the options can be enabled then clearly the dependency should 
> be used so that user can select only one option at a time.

Ack. There should be dependency in Kconfig so that user can select
either 8250 console(through Quad-uart for zoom2/zoom3) or OMAP-serial
Console(through OMAP UART's).

-Manjunath--
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