tty/serial/core: Introduce poll_init callback
authorAnton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:27:53 +0000 (14:27 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:47:02 +0000 (13:47 -0700)
It was noticed that polling drivers (like KGDB) are not able to use
serial ports if the ports were not previously initialized via console.
I.e.  when booting with console=ttyAMA0 kgdboc=ttyAMA0, everything works
fine, but with console=ttyFOO kgdboc=ttyAMA0, the kgdboc doesn't work.

This is because we don't initialize the hardware. Calling ->startup() is
not an option, because drivers request interrupts there, and drivers
fail to handle situations when tty isn't opened with interrupts enabled.

So, we have to implement a new callback (actually, tty_ops already have
a similar callback), which does everything needed to initialize just the
hardware.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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