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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig index 0fcbcd29502f..6f7f2d753def 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig @@ -308,6 +308,25 @@ config SERIAL_8250_OMAP This driver uses ttyS instead of ttyO. +config SERIAL_8250_OMAP_TTYO_FIXUP + bool "Replace ttyO with ttyS" + depends on SERIAL_8250_OMAP=y && SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE + default y + help + This option replaces the "console=ttyO" argument with the matching + ttyS argument if the user did not specified it on the command line. + This ensures that the user can see the kernel output during boot + which he wouldn't see otherwise. The getty has still to be configured + for ttyS instead of ttyO regardless of this option. + This option is intended for people who "automatically" enable this + driver without knowing that this driver requires a different console= + argument. If you read this, please keep this option disabled and + instead update your kernel command line. If you prepare a kernel for a + distribution or other kind of larger user base then you probably want + to keep this option enabled. Otherwise people might complain about a + not booting kernel because the serial console remains silent in case + they forgot to update the command line. + config SERIAL_8250_FINTEK tristate "Support for Fintek F81216A LPC to 4 UART" depends on SERIAL_8250 && PNP |