Re: [PATCH 2/2] serial: pl011: Move uart_register_driver call to device probe

[One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

And an even simpler broad brush approach will also work I think (untested)

The "zero crap" approach....

commit c5cd0be0576ba9059799ef5383402ff6ffc212a3
Author: Alan <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:   Mon Feb 17 15:52:21 2014 +0000

    tty: Allow serial port allocations to be fully dynamic
    
    This switch allows platforms to make their serial port allocations entirely
    dynamic as is needed on some non-x86 platforms which have overlapping static
    minor numbers between some of their devices.
    
    Default to the old static allocations for maximum compatibility with ancient
    userspace.
    
    Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/tty/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/Kconfig
index 65cd80b..670c076 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/tty/Kconfig
@@ -166,6 +166,16 @@ config LEGACY_PTY_COUNT
 	  When not in use, each legacy PTY occupies 12 bytes on 32-bit
 	  architectures and 24 bytes on 64-bit architectures.
 
+config TTY_SERIAL_LEGACY
+	bool "Allocate legacy fixed minor numbers for serial ports"
+	default y
+	---help---
+	  Modern linux dynamically allocates device numbers. Some very old
+	  Linux distributions only support static device numbering.
+	  Selecting this option will enable support for very old
+	  userspace but on some non PC architectures may prevent you building
+	  a single kernel for multiple machines.
+
 config BFIN_JTAG_COMM
 	tristate "Blackfin JTAG Communication"
 	depends on BLACKFIN
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
index ece2049..b78afc1 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
@@ -2315,8 +2315,10 @@ int uart_register_driver(struct uart_driver *drv)
 
 	normal->driver_name	= drv->driver_name;
 	normal->name		= drv->dev_name;
+#ifdef CONFIG_TTY_SERIAL_LEGACY
 	normal->major		= drv->major;
 	normal->minor_start	= drv->minor;
+#endif	
 	normal->type		= TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_SERIAL;
 	normal->subtype		= SERIAL_TYPE_NORMAL;
 	normal->init_termios	= tty_std_termios;