[PATCH v2 2/2] tty: serial: samsung: Clean-up selection of number of available UARTs

[kgene@kernel.org (Kukjin Kim)]

Abhilash Kesavan wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Abhilash Kesavan	
> <kesavan.abhilash@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello Kukjin,
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Abhilash Kesavan
> > <kesavan.abhilash@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi Kukjin,
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Abhilash Kesavan
> >> <kesavan.abhilash@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi Kukjin
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Kukjin Kim <kgene@kernel.org> wrote:
> >>>> Abhilash Kesavan wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> Sorry for late response.
> >>>>
> >>>>> Remove symbols SERIAL_SAMSUNG_UARTS_4 and SERIAL_SAMSUNG_UARTS which
> >>>>> select the number of UART ports available on the SoC. Replace the usage
> >>>>> of SERIAL_SAMSUNG_UARTS in the serial driver with the maximum number of
> >>>>
> >>>> Well, as you know the number of uart ports are different on each Samsung SoCs
> >>>> so I don't think just using maximum number of uart ports are possible for new
> >>>> exynos7 SoC at this moment.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for the review.
> >>> The main reason for me sending this patch was so that we may be able
> >>> to re-use the serial driver on arm64 based Exynos7 too. The two
> >>> symbols mentioned above which depend on PLAT_SAMSUNG prevent this. I
> >>> initially sent a patch which changed the dependency to SERIAL_SAMSUNG
> >>> for these 2 symbols. However, Tomasz suggested that a clean-up of
> >>> these two symbols would be a better option.
> >>>
> >>> Please see the discussion of the previous version here:
> >>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/29/702
> >>>
> >>> Can you please let me know if the previous version is acceptable ?
> >>
> >> Kukjin, can you please indicate the approach you would like me to
> >> take. Without this serial support is blocked on Exynos7.
> >
> > Gentle reminder on this.
> 
> Hi Kukjin,
> 
Hi Abhilash,

> I don't mean to nag, but this another reminder to review this.

Yeah, it's no problem for me ;)

> Please let me know if you are too busy to have a look at this or
> require some more inputs from me.
> 
Since I'm still having some objection on 2nd version, how about keeping current
config options for serial for now and changing the dependency to SERIAL_SAMSUNG?
And if required later, we can look into removal these config options later.

Thanks,
Kukjin