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From: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
To: "Govindraj.R" <govindraj.raja@ti.com>
Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>, Partha Basak <p-basak2@ti.com>,
	Vishwanath Sripathy <vishwanath.bs@ti.com>,
	Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@ti.com>,
	Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 05/16] OMAP2+: UART: Cleanup part of clock gating mechanism for uart
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:30:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ty7gfpik.fsf@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1317380495-584-5-git-send-email-govindraj.raja@ti.com> (Govindraj R.'s message of "Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:31:31 +0530")

"Govindraj.R" <govindraj.raja@ti.com> writes:

> Currently we use a shared irq handler to identify uart activity and then
> trigger a timer. 

OK.

> Based the timeout value set from sysfs the timer used to expire.

Please re-phrase as I'm not sure what is being said here.

> If no uart-activity was detected timer-expiry func sets can_sleep
> flag. Based on this we will disable the uart clocks in idle path.
>
> Since the clock gating mechanism is outside the uart driver, we currently
> use this mechanism. In preparation to runtime implementation for omap-serial
> driver we can cleanup this mechanism and use runtime API's to gate uart clocks.
>
> Also remove timer related info from local uart_state struct and remove
> the code used to set timeout value from sysfs. Remove un-used function
> omap_uart_check_wakeup.
>
> Signed-off-by: Govindraj.R <govindraj.raja@ti.com>

The patch itself fine, and is a well-neede cleanup, but changelog
(especially the first part) does not read well.

Kevin

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: khilman@ti.com (Kevin Hilman)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v6 05/16] OMAP2+: UART: Cleanup part of clock gating mechanism for uart
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:30:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ty7gfpik.fsf@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1317380495-584-5-git-send-email-govindraj.raja@ti.com> (Govindraj R.'s message of "Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:31:31 +0530")

"Govindraj.R" <govindraj.raja@ti.com> writes:

> Currently we use a shared irq handler to identify uart activity and then
> trigger a timer. 

OK.

> Based the timeout value set from sysfs the timer used to expire.

Please re-phrase as I'm not sure what is being said here.

> If no uart-activity was detected timer-expiry func sets can_sleep
> flag. Based on this we will disable the uart clocks in idle path.
>
> Since the clock gating mechanism is outside the uart driver, we currently
> use this mechanism. In preparation to runtime implementation for omap-serial
> driver we can cleanup this mechanism and use runtime API's to gate uart clocks.
>
> Also remove timer related info from local uart_state struct and remove
> the code used to set timeout value from sysfs. Remove un-used function
> omap_uart_check_wakeup.
>
> Signed-off-by: Govindraj.R <govindraj.raja@ti.com>

The patch itself fine, and is a well-neede cleanup, but changelog
(especially the first part) does not read well.

Kevin

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-10 22:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-30 11:01 [PATCH v6 01/16] OMAP2+: hwmod: Add API to enable IO ring wakeup Govindraj.R
2011-09-30 11:01 ` Govindraj.R
2011-09-30 11:01 ` [PATCH v6 02/16] OMAP2+: hwmod: Add API to check IO PAD wakeup status Govindraj.R
2011-09-30 11:01   ` Govindraj.R
2011-10-01 14:33   ` Rajendra Nayak
2011-10-01 14:33     ` Rajendra Nayak
2011-10-03  5:00     ` Govindraj
2011-10-03  5:00       ` Govindraj
2011-10-03  5:23       ` Rajendra Nayak
2011-10-03  5:23         ` Rajendra Nayak
2011-10-03  5:56         ` Govindraj
2011-10-03  5:56           ` Govindraj
2011-10-10 22:24           ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-10 22:24             ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-11  6:17             ` Govindraj
2011-10-11  6:17               ` Govindraj
2011-09-30 11:01 ` [PATCH v6 03/16] OMAP2+: UART: cleanup + remove uart pm specific API Govindraj.R
2011-09-30 11:01   ` Govindraj.R
2011-09-30 11:01 ` [PATCH v6 04/16] OMAP2+: UART: cleanup 8250 console driver support Govindraj.R
2011-09-30 11:01   ` Govindraj.R
2011-10-04 21:42   ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-04 21:42     ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-05  6:54     ` Govindraj
2011-10-05  6:54       ` Govindraj
2011-10-05 18:42       ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-05 18:42         ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-06  8:16         ` Govindraj
2011-10-06  8:16           ` Govindraj
2011-09-30 11:01 ` [PATCH v6 05/16] OMAP2+: UART: Cleanup part of clock gating mechanism for uart Govindraj.R
2011-09-30 11:01   ` Govindraj.R
2011-10-10 22:30   ` Kevin Hilman [this message]
2011-10-10 22:30     ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-11  6:45     ` Govindraj
2011-10-11  6:45       ` Govindraj
2011-09-30 11:01 ` [PATCH v6 06/16] OMAP2+: UART: Remove certain feilds from omap_uart_state struct Govindraj.R
2011-09-30 11:01   ` Govindraj.R
2011-10-10 23:31   ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-10 23:31     ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-12 10:25     ` Govindraj
2011-10-12 10:25       ` Govindraj
2011-09-30 11:01 ` [PATCH v6 07/16] OMAP2+: UART: Add default mux for all uarts Govindraj.R
2011-09-30 11:01   ` Govindraj.R
2011-10-05 19:04   ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-05 19:04     ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-06  8:21     ` Govindraj
2011-10-06  8:21       ` Govindraj
2011-09-30 11:01 ` [PATCH v6 08/16] OMAP2+: UART: Store certain reg values to port structure Govindraj.R
2011-09-30 11:01   ` Govindraj.R
2011-10-10 23:58   ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-10 23:58     ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-11 13:21     ` Govindraj
2011-10-11 13:21       ` Govindraj
2011-09-30 11:01 ` [PATCH v6 09/16] OMAP2+: UART: Add runtime pm support for omap-serial driver Govindraj.R
2011-09-30 11:01   ` Govindraj.R
2011-10-10 23:42   ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-10 23:42     ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-12 10:37     ` Govindraj
2011-10-12 10:37       ` Govindraj
2011-10-10 23:56   ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-10 23:56     ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-12 10:35     ` Govindraj
2011-10-12 10:35       ` Govindraj
2011-10-13  0:06   ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-13  0:06     ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-13  1:28     ` Govindraj
2011-10-13  1:28       ` Govindraj
2011-10-13 21:22       ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-13 21:22         ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-14 12:32         ` Govindraj
2011-10-14 12:32           ` Govindraj
2011-10-14 17:04           ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-14 17:04             ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-14 18:29             ` Govindraj
2011-10-14 18:29               ` Govindraj
2011-10-01 13:41 ` [PATCH v6 01/16] OMAP2+: hwmod: Add API to enable IO ring wakeup Rajendra Nayak
2011-10-01 13:41   ` Rajendra Nayak
2011-10-03 15:10   ` Vishwanath Sripathy
2011-10-03 15:10     ` Vishwanath Sripathy
2011-10-04 21:03   ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-04 21:03     ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-05 11:57     ` Rajendra Nayak
2011-10-05 11:57       ` Rajendra Nayak

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