Re: [PATCH] serial: samsung: Fix serial config dependencies for exynos7

["gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 07:47:02AM +0530, Abhilash Kesavan wrote:
> Hello Greg,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Abhilash Kesavan
> <kesavan.abhilash@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Abhilash Kesavan
> > <kesavan.abhilash@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi Tomasz,
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 4:08 AM, Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi Abhilash,
> >>>
> >>> The patch itself seems fine, but I wonder if those config options aren't
> >>> really just leftovers from the past and couldn't be completely removed.
> >>>
> >>> On 29.09.2014 07:16, Abhilash Kesavan wrote:
> >>>> From: Pankaj Dubey <pankaj.dubey@samsung.com>
> >>>>
> >>>> Exynos7 has a similar serial controller to that present in older Samsung
> >>>> SoCs. To re-use the existing serial driver on Exynos7 we need to have
> >>>> SERIAL_SAMSUNG_UARTS_4 and SERIAL_SAMSUNG_UARTS selected. This is not
> >>>> possible because these symbols are dependent on PLAT_SAMSUNG which is
> >>>> not present for the ARMv8 based exynos7.
> >>>>
> >>>> Change the dependency of these symbols from PLAT_SAMSUNG to the serial
> >>>> driver thus making it available on exynos7. As the existing platform
> >>>> specific code making use of these symbols is related to uart driver this
> >>>> change in dependency should not cause any issues.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Dubey <pankaj.dubey@samsung.com>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Naveen Krishna Chatradhi <ch.naveen@samsung.com>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Abhilash Kesavan <a.kesavan@samsung.com>
> >>>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> >>>> ---
> >>>> Build tested with s3c6400_defconfig, exynos_defconfig and arm64's defconfig
> >>>> with and without the serial driver enabled.
> >>>>
> >>>>  drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig |    4 ++--
> >>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> >>>> index 81f6ee7..e6c0bcb 100644
> >>>> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> >>>> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> >>>> @@ -249,14 +249,14 @@ config SERIAL_SAMSUNG
> >>>>
> >>>>  config SERIAL_SAMSUNG_UARTS_4
> >>>>       bool
> >>>> -     depends on PLAT_SAMSUNG
> >>>> +     depends on SERIAL_SAMSUNG
> >>>>       default y if !(CPU_S3C2410 || CPU_S3C2412 || CPU_S3C2440 || CPU_S3C2442)
> >>>>       help
> >>>>         Internal node for the common case of 4 Samsung compatible UARTs
> >>>
> >>> The only place where this symbol is used is below.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>  config SERIAL_SAMSUNG_UARTS
> >>>>       int
> >>>> -     depends on PLAT_SAMSUNG
> >>>> +     depends on SERIAL_SAMSUNG
> >>>>       default 4 if SERIAL_SAMSUNG_UARTS_4 || CPU_S3C2416
> >>>>       default 3
> >>>>       help
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> With this symbol the situation isn't that easy, but still should be
> >>> manageable.
> >>>
> >>> Looking at the serial-samsung driver, all occurrences of
> >>> CONFIG_SERIAL_SAMSUNG_UARTS could be simply replaced with a locally
> >>> defined number equal to the maximum value - in this case 4.
> >>>
> >>> There are also two places in arch/arm where this symbol is used:
> >>>
> >>> 1) In arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/irq-pm.c it's used as the number of serial
> >>> ports which need suspend/resume handling. Since on s3c64xx the number is
> >>> always 4, it can be simply defined locally as a constant.
> >>>
> >>> 2) In arch/arm/plat-samsung/init.c it is used to determine size of a
> >>> static array of UART ports and to check whether the UART driver is
> >>> enabled. In former case I believe it should be safe to hardcode it to 4
> >>> as well, in latter CONFIG_SERIAL_SAMSUNG can be used.
> >>
> >> I will post patches removing these two symbols.
> >
> > I posted a couple of patches handling Tomasz' comments but Kukjin
> > prefers the approach in this patch (Discussion here:
> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-samsung-soc/msg38742.html).
> > Can you please review the patch.
> 
> This is a gentle reminder. The patch is required for serial enablement
> on the new exynos7 SoC, kindly take a look.

What patch?  I fail to see anything in my inboxes that I can apply, only
this long thread that makes no sense at all.

Please resend anything that you want to have applied, in a format that I
can apply it, _AND_ get everyone to agree that it is the correct
solution.

Asking me to go look up random web archives, of mailing list threads I
was never copied on, is a sure way to get your email ignored, as again,
there is nothing I can do with it.  You know better than this.

greg k-h