linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/11] resolve PXA<->8250 serial device address conflict

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 02 Dec 2013 13:23:58 +0400
From:	Sergei Ianovich <ynvich@...il.com>
To:	Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	"open list:SERIAL DRIVERS" <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] resolve PXA<->8250 serial device address conflict

On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 11:02 +0200, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> 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]).
> > 
> <snip>
> 
> If drivers/tty/serial/pxa.c was converted to an other probe driver for
> the 8250, this would not be an issue.

It seems that my patch is not going to be accepted. However, there is a
device which has both PXA ports and a additional 8250 accent chip. As a
result, there is a device allocation conflict. For the device to be
usable the conflict needs to be resolved.

Do you mean that drivers/tty/serial/pxa.c needs to be rewritten to
support lp8x4x special case?

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/