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Tony Lindgren 787a1cabac serial: core: Add support for DEVNAME:0.0 style naming for kernel console 
We can now add hardware based addressing for serial ports. Starting with
commit 84a9582fd2 ("serial: core: Start managing serial controllers to
enable runtime PM"), and all the related fixes to this commit, the serial
core now knows to which serial port controller the ports are connected.

The serial ports can be addressed with DEVNAME:0.0 style naming. The names
are something like 00:04:0.0 for a serial port on qemu, and something like
2800000.serial:0.0 on platform device using systems like ARM64 for example.

The DEVNAME is the unique serial port hardware controller device name, AKA
the name for port->dev. The 0.0 are the serial core controller id and port
id.

Typically 0.0 are used for each controller and port instance unless the
serial port hardware controller has multiple controllers or ports.

Using DEVNAME:0.0 style naming actually solves two long term issues for
addressing the serial ports:

1. According to Andy Shevchenko, using DEVNAME:0.0 style naming fixes an
   issue where depending on the BIOS settings, the kernel serial port ttyS
   instance number may change if HSUART is enabled

2. Device tree using architectures no longer necessarily need to specify
   aliases to find a specific serial port, and we can just allocate the
   ttyS instance numbers dynamically in whatever probe order

To do this, let's match the hardware addressing style console name to
the character device name used, and add a preferred console using the
character device name.

Note that when using console=DEVNAME:0.0 style kernel command line, the
8250 serial console gets enabled later compared to using console=ttyS
naming for ISA ports. This is because the serial port DEVNAME to character
device mapping is not known until the serial driver probe time. If used
together with earlycon, this issue is avoided.

Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Reviewed-by: Dhruva Gole <d-gole@ti.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240327110021.59793-5-tony@atomide.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2024-04-09 15:30:13 +02:00
arch Miscellaneous x86 fixes: 2024-04-07 09:33:21 -07:00
block block-6.9-20240405 2024-04-05 17:04:11 -07:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto This push fixes a regression that broke iwd as well as a divide by 2024-03-25 10:48:23 -07:00
Documentation Devicetree fixes for v6.9, part 1: 2024-04-05 14:07:22 -07:00
drivers serial: core: Add support for DEVNAME:0.0 style naming for kernel console 2024-04-09 15:30:13 +02:00
fs nfsd-6.9 fixes: 2024-04-06 09:37:50 -07:00
include printk: Save console options for add_preferred_console_match() 2024-04-09 15:30:13 +02:00
init init: open output files from cpio unpacking with O_LARGEFILE 2024-04-05 11:21:30 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/kbuf: hold io_buffer_list reference over mmap 2024-04-02 19:03:27 -06:00
ipc sysctl changes for v6.9-rc1 2024-03-18 14:59:13 -07:00
kernel printk: Flag register_console() if console is set on command line 2024-04-09 15:30:13 +02:00
lib kfifo: add kfifo_dma_out_prepare_mapped() 2024-04-09 15:28:03 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm x86/mm/pat: fix VM_PAT handling in COW mappings 2024-04-05 11:21:31 -07:00
net nfsd-6.9 fixes: 2024-04-06 09:37:50 -07:00
rust Kbuild updates for v6.9 2024-03-21 14:41:00 -07:00
samples Tracing updates for 6.9: 2024-03-18 15:11:44 -07:00
scripts Four small documentation fixes. 2024-04-02 12:44:09 -07:00
security security: Place security_path_post_mknod() where the original IMA call was 2024-04-03 10:21:32 -07:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.9 2024-04-05 08:48:12 +02:00
tools 8 hotfixes, 3 are cc:stable 2024-04-05 13:30:01 -07:00
usr Kbuild updates for v6.8 2024-01-18 17:57:07 -08:00
virt KVM Xen and pfncache changes for 6.9: 2024-03-11 10:42:55 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.7-rc4's for_each macro list 2023-12-08 23:54:38 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig file for basic formatting 2023-12-28 16:22:47 +09:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: create a list of all built DTB files 2024-02-19 18:20:39 +09:00
.mailmap MAINTAINERS: change vmware.com addresses to broadcom.com 2024-04-05 11:21:31 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS Not a ton of stuff happening in the clk framework in this pull request. We got 2024-03-15 11:48:01 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Devicetree fixes for v6.9, part 1: 2024-04-05 14:07:22 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.9-rc3 2024-04-07 13:22:46 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.