Re: [Pxa-linux-users] PXA serial change

[Steven N. <s_j...@ya...>]

--- Stanley Cai <sta...@gm...> wrote:

> FYI. A patch for PXA serial driver.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Todd Blumer <sdg...@gm...>
> Date: Oct 7, 2006 2:44 AM
> Subject: PXA serial change
> To: lin...@li...
> 
> 
> I hate to bring up this issue again, but here goes. I would really
> like it if we could change the internal PXA serial ports as follows
> (or similar, given that the devfs stuff is now removed):
> 
[snip patch]
> For handhelds, I get tired of dealing with the fact that 8250.ko and
> pxa.ko don't play nicely together. This change obviously moves the
> namespace of pxa.c to ttySAx. The upside is that 8250 code doesn't
> need to be touched and serial-based CF cards like GPS and modems just
> work. The downside is that all of the handhelds' /etc scripts that use
> ttySx (console, BT, sometimes IrDA) need to change. For the iPAQ
> hx4700, that's just a couple of files (inittab, hciattach, and kernel
> boot line). Thus, I think that's pretty minor.

I agree that this it the correct way to go.  I have modified my own tree in the
same manner.  Good luck on convincing the maintainer...
> 
> As a side note, the i.MX serial driver uses ttySMX as the prefix and
> it works well.
> 
> Any hope of getting this changed in the near future? Or, maybe I
> missed something and this problem has been resolved since 2.6.15?
No it still persists last time I checked.


Steve


		
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