linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] tty: serial: Add 8250-core based omap driver

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Message-ID: <CAFEAcA-UyLWteuNUO1xa5cGvQQV-fscJtiaC7B6N=cdTam-UQA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 4 Jul 2014 17:59:35 +0100
From:	Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@...aro.org>
To:	Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>
Cc:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>, Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux OMAP Mailing List <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux ARM Kernel Mailing List 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] tty: serial: Add 8250-core based omap driver

On 2 July 2014 20:09, Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi> wrote:
> When ttyS -> ttyO change was done on OMAP, compatibility was not an issue.
> Why should we care about it now?

You should have cared about it back then as well -- it was
really annoying and required everybody running an OMAP
based board to suddenly fix up their userland and command
line configs when they got broken by a kernel upgrade.

thanks
-- PMM
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