linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] serial: DCC(JTAG) serial and console emulation support

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Date:	Thu, 7 Oct 2010 17:05:31 -0400
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
To:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Hyok S. Choi" <hyok.choi@...sung.com>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	Jeff Ohlstein <johlstei@...cinc.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@...sung.com>,
	Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>,
	Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>,
	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
	Philippe Langlais <philippe.langlais@...ricsson.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: DCC(JTAG) serial and console emulation support

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 16:59, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 16:47 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 16:06, Daniel Walker wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 16:02 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> >> how is that any different from:
>> >> ln -s ttyJ0 /dev/ttyS0
>> >
>> > It has the same major and minors as ttyS* does. So you don't have to run
>> > anything on the target.
>>
>> i dont see how those things are related.  the major/minor are
>> irrelevant, unless you've already hard coded these in some app that
>> creates device nodes manually (instead of mdev/udev), but even then
>> that's something that "needs to be run on the target".  and both
>> already have config support to transparently do something like
>> "symlink ttyS# to XXX" as XXX is created.
>
> Something does ultimately run on all targets, the issues is does the
> person debugging have the ability to change it .. It's not always the
> case that they can change it. The userspace may not have udev at all.
> The userspace may consist of a single binary .. I'm not making any
> assumptions about the userspace here, it can be anything.

then there is already a static rootfs with pre-populated /dev which
would be fixed, or the single binary fixed.  if the options are "my
system works" or "my system doesnt work", i cant imagine people would
continue to attempt to use "/dev/ttyS#" if it didnt exist or didnt
work.
-mike
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