Re: [RFC][PATCH] Way for platforms to alter built-in serial ports

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Wed Nov 03 2004 - 07:09:52 EST


On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 07:43 +0000, Russell King wrote:
> This call can now be removed - for any serial device, we keep registering
> the console each time a new port is added until it successfully registers.

Er, if we already fixed that, then what was it which still needed to be
fixed? If the console is registered when the port is registered, what
stops us from dropping the static table and letting the i386
setup_arch() code register the port?

You'd still get the console working a lot earlier than it does today --
currently I think we wait for the console_initcalls to start the 8250
console on most platforms, including i386.

--
dwmw2

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