[PATCH 2/4] of: Enable console on serial ports specified by /chosen/stdout-path

From: Grant Likely
Date: Wed Jun 18 2014 - 16:55:39 EST


If the devicetree specifies a serial port as a stdout device, then the
kernel can use it as the default console if nothing else was selected on
the command line. For any serial port that uses the uart_add_one_port()
feature, the uart_add_one_port() has all the information needed to
automatically enable the console device, which is what this patch does.

With this change applied, a device tree platform can be booted without
any console= parameters on the command line and the kernel will still be
able to determine its console.

Tested on QEMU Versatile model and i.MX

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
index fbf6c5ad222f..3ce68f962c92 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/console.h>
+#include <linux/of.h>
#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
#include <linux/device.h>
@@ -2615,6 +2616,8 @@ int uart_add_one_port(struct uart_driver *drv, struct uart_port *uport)
spin_lock_init(&uport->lock);
lockdep_set_class(&uport->lock, &port_lock_key);
}
+ if (uport->cons && uport->dev)
+ of_console_check(uport->dev->of_node, uport->cons->name, uport->line);

uart_configure_port(drv, state, uport);

--
1.9.1

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