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

From: Peter Maydell
Date: Fri Jul 04 2014 - 13:00:04 EST


On 2 July 2014 20:09, Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx> 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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