linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] serial: core: Add support for dev

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Message-ID: <20230720041345.GN5194@atomide.com>
Date:   Thu, 20 Jul 2023 07:13:45 +0300
From:   Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>, Dhruva Gole <d-gole@...com>,
        Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
        Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: core: Add support for dev_name:0.0 naming for
 kernel console

* Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com> [230719 05:37]:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 08:15:23AM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > With the serial core controller related changes we can now start
> > addressing serial ports with dev_name:0.0 naming. The names are something
> > like 00:04.0:0.0 on qemu, and 2800000.serial.0:0.0 on ARM for example.
> > 
> > The dev_name is unique serial port hardware controller device name, also
> 
> Maybe for the sake of consistency you may use DEVNAME here and everywhere else
> to link this to the DEVNAME uevent environment variable?

Yes good idea will do.

Regards,

Tony