From 4feead71fa68a41db1d4f065c0f91fd67288877d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Vorontsov Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:45:58 -0700 Subject: serial: fix driver_name conflicts Some drivers are using too generic "serial" name for driver_name, this might cause issues, like this: Freescale QUICC Engine UART device driver proc_dir_entry 'serial' already registered Call Trace: [cf82de50] [c0007f7c] show_stack+0x4c/0x1ac (unreliable) [cf82de90] [c00b03fc] proc_register+0xfc/0x1ac [cf82dec0] [c00b05c8] create_proc_entry+0x60/0xac [cf82dee0] [c00b23dc] proc_tty_register_driver+0x60/0x98 [cf82def0] [c016dbd8] tty_register_driver+0x1b4/0x228 [cf82df20] [c0184d70] uart_register_driver+0x144/0x194 [cf82df40] [c030a378] ucc_uart_init+0x2c/0x94 [cf82df50] [c02f21a0] kernel_init+0x98/0x27c [cf82dff0] [c000fa74] kernel_thread+0x44/0x60 ^^ The board is using ucc_uart.c and 8250.c, both registered as "serial". This patch fixes two drivers that are using "serial" for driver_name and not "ttyS" for dev_name. Drivers that are using "ttyS" for dev_name, will conflict anyway, so we don't bother with these. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov Acked-by: Alan Cox Acked-By: Timur Tabi Acked-by: Maciej W. Rozycki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/serial/sb1250-duart.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/serial/sb1250-duart.c') diff --git a/drivers/serial/sb1250-duart.c b/drivers/serial/sb1250-duart.c index 2d6c08b3dbcf..f8e1447a022a 100644 --- a/drivers/serial/sb1250-duart.c +++ b/drivers/serial/sb1250-duart.c @@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ console_initcall(sbd_serial_console_init); static struct uart_driver sbd_reg = { .owner = THIS_MODULE, - .driver_name = "serial", + .driver_name = "sb1250_duart", .dev_name = "duart", .major = TTY_MAJOR, .minor = SB1250_DUART_MINOR_BASE, -- cgit v1.2.3