From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gregkh@suse.de (Greg KH) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:16:43 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/6] serial: Add support for UART on VIA VT8500 and compatibles In-Reply-To: <1287608139-21354-2-git-send-email-alchark@gmail.com> References: <1287608139-21354-1-git-send-email-alchark@gmail.com> <1287608139-21354-2-git-send-email-alchark@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20101020211643.GA10006@suse.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:55:34AM +0400, Alexey Charkov wrote: > This adds a driver for the serial ports found in VIA and WonderMedia > Systems-on-Chip. Interrupt-driven FIFO operation is implemented. > The hardware also supports pure register-based operation (which is > slower) and DMA-based FIFO operation. As the FIFOs are only 16 bytes > long, DMA operation is probably not worth the hassle. > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Charkov > --- > > Please review and state whether this could be acceptable for a merge > to mainline in the coming 2.6.37 window. .37? Aren't you cutting it a bit close here? My trees unofficially closed a few days or so ago for new stuff to go to .37, what kept this from being sent previously? > If possible, I would deeply appreciate a merge to a relevant git tree > for integration prior to asking Linus to pull the changes. I could > rebase the code if needed, currently this is against Linus' master > branch. > > This patch relies on the basic architecture support for VT8500/WM8505 > to be in place, as introduced by PATCH 1/6 in this series. So it will just fail to build without that patch? thanks, greg k-h From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753204Ab0JTVSS (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:18:18 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:45319 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751490Ab0JTVSR (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:18:17 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:16:43 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Alexey Charkov Cc: vt8500-wm8505-linux-kernel@googlegroups.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] serial: Add support for UART on VIA VT8500 and compatibles Message-ID: <20101020211643.GA10006@suse.de> References: <1287608139-21354-1-git-send-email-alchark@gmail.com> <1287608139-21354-2-git-send-email-alchark@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1287608139-21354-2-git-send-email-alchark@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:55:34AM +0400, Alexey Charkov wrote: > This adds a driver for the serial ports found in VIA and WonderMedia > Systems-on-Chip. Interrupt-driven FIFO operation is implemented. > The hardware also supports pure register-based operation (which is > slower) and DMA-based FIFO operation. As the FIFOs are only 16 bytes > long, DMA operation is probably not worth the hassle. > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Charkov > --- > > Please review and state whether this could be acceptable for a merge > to mainline in the coming 2.6.37 window. .37? Aren't you cutting it a bit close here? My trees unofficially closed a few days or so ago for new stuff to go to .37, what kept this from being sent previously? > If possible, I would deeply appreciate a merge to a relevant git tree > for integration prior to asking Linus to pull the changes. I could > rebase the code if needed, currently this is against Linus' master > branch. > > This patch relies on the basic architecture support for VT8500/WM8505 > to be in place, as introduced by PATCH 1/6 in this series. So it will just fail to build without that patch? thanks, greg k-h