[PATCH] Fix legacy serial search for opb bus ports
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Feb 6 11:08:51 EST 2008
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 23:01 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> The patch to legacy_serial.c (1a7507c7da2df6856e085e0fbb0c9ea8c12ac4e,
> Reduce code duplication in legacy_serial, add UART parent types) changed
> the semantics for opb ports from type = "opb" || compatible = "ibm,opb"
> to type = "opb" && compatible = "ibm,opb".
>
> The result is serial ports on our QS21s (Cell blades) don't get found,
> and for some reason the machine doesn't boot at all - possibly it's
> panicking due to lack of a console?
>
> The fix is to add two entries to the of_device_id table, one that looks
> for type = "opb" and the other compatible = "ibm,opb".
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/legacy_serial.c | 3 ++-
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/legacy_serial.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/legacy_serial.c
> index 76b862b..61dd174 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/legacy_serial.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/legacy_serial.c
> @@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ static struct legacy_serial_info {
> static struct __initdata of_device_id parents[] = {
> {.type = "soc",},
> {.type = "tsi-bridge",},
> - {.type = "opb", .compatible = "ibm,opb",},
> + {.type = "opb", },
> + {.compatible = "ibm,opb",},
> {.compatible = "simple-bus",},
> {.compatible = "wrs,epld-localbus",},
> };
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