Re: [PATCH] tty/8250_early: Turn serial_in/serial_out into weak symbols.

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 06:34:30AM +0200, Noam Camus wrote:
> From: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com>
> 
> Allows overriding default methods serial_in/serial_out.
> 
> In such platform specific replacement it is possible to use,
> other regshift, biased register offset, any other manipulation
> that is not covered with common default methods.
> 
> Overriding default methods may be useful for platforms which got
> serial peripheral with registers represented in big endian.
> In this situation and assuming that 32 bit operations / alignment
> is required then it may be useful to swab words before/after
> accessing the serial registers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com>
> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_early.c |   42 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  include/linux/serial_8250.h          |    2 +
>  2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

This patch no longer applies to my tree.  Can you please refresh it
against the tty-next tree and resend it, with Alan's ack kept on it, so
I remember it is there?

thanks,

greg k-h