earlycon issues in -next with amba-pl011 updates

[linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 12:06:52PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 05:08:53PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > On 03/09/15 16:52, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 11:23:15AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > >> So -next has now been broken for a while on a number of ARM platforms
> > >> because of this (they simply cannot boot), and no progress has been made
> > >> towards resolving this problem.
> > >>
> > >> Can we please drop this series (at least commits 7b753f3 and following)
> > >> from -next until is has been reworked and reviewed?
> > > 
> > > I don't have any patches in my -next tree, everything is in Linus's tree
> > > now.  So if I've missed something, or need to revert something, please
> > > let me know specifcally what to do.
> > 
> > Gahhh... Given that there is no obvious fix, that the discussion has
> > stalled and that the author of the series is apparently away, the
> > following patches should be reverted:
> > 
> > 8cd90e50d140 uart: pl011: Add support to ZTE ZX296702 uart
> > 09dcc7dfc05b uart: pl011: Improve LCRH register access decision
> > 2c096a9eedc6 uart: pl011: Introduce register look up table
> > 7b753f318d14 uart: pl011: Introduce register accessor
> > 534e14e2293d uart: pl011: Rename regs with enumeration
> > 
> > (7b753f318d14 being the one breaking everything, but it makes more sense
> > to revert the whole series until it is properly fixed and reviewed).
> 
> For the reverts (git revert 534e14e2293d~1..8cd90e50d140):
> 
>   Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
>   Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> 
> We can discuss what could've and should've happened 'til we're blue in
> the face but, in the meantime, I'd like my serial console back.
> 
> Greg -- any chance you could send these for -rc1, please?

Given the number of reviews the patches went through, I eventually came
to the conclusion that it would be far better if I were to write the
set of patches for the driver - but I haven't had a slot to do that.
I basically stopped reviewing them because I decided it wasn't worth
spending the time anymore on the series.  That wasn't an implicit
"I'm happy with the patch set" but more a "I've given up with this
patch set, it's still not up to scratch."

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