[PATCH] Revert "ARM: pxa: call debug_ll_io_init for earlyprintk"

[andy@aeruder.net (Andrew Ruder)]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 11:44:52PM +0200, Robert Jarzmik wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> writes:
> 
> > On Monday 06 October 2014 16:02:09 Andrew Ruder wrote:
> >> On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 09:29:36PM +0200, Robert Jarzmik wrote:
> >> > Actually, I have a question for Andrew : was your commit aimed at the 3 or 4
> >> > available UARTs (ie. in peripheral address space), or is it a case where an
> >> > external UART is mapped on the system bus (if that is possible) ?
> >> 
> >> My apologies!  I'm actually on a really long-term project of getting my
> >> board (similar to zeus board already in the kernel) fully running off of
> >> devicetree.  For this particular board, all of the UARTS are on the
> >> system bus and not the built in ones.  But yes - I do see how the
> >> built-in UARTS would overlap and hit the BUG_ON on other boards.  Any
> >> thoughts on a better way of solving this than just reverting the patch
> >> back into only working on the built-in UARTs?
> >
> > I think the best way forward is to make the built-in UARTs work with
> > debug_ll_io_init and then apply your patch again.
> Yes, and that means revert, right ?

I think so, yes.  See my response to Arnd.

> I don't see how to do it without ugly ifdefery though such as :
> [...]
> But that's awfull, there should be another better way ...

I agree, surely other ports are getting around this problem in another
way?

Cheers,
Andy