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From: andrew@lunn.ch (Andrew Lunn)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: dts: armada-385-synology-ds116: add support for Synology DS116 NAS
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 16:38:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170212153855.GA17141@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170212012418.GA17841@1wt.eu>

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 02:24:18AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 02:17:44AM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > But won't that squat the I/O address and prevent me from using all the
> > > other codes via the regular serial port ?
> > 
> > Nope. That driver hijacks the serial port during shutdown to actually
> > turn the power off. The rest of the time, it does not touch the serial
> > port. Userspace, or the rest of the kernel is free to use it.
> 
> OK so I should declare both the serial and the power-off device at the
> same address ? Excuse-me for the dumb question but I'm not much used to
> doing uncommon things in DTS files :-/

Hi Willy

What you have in v2 and v3 looks good. It could be considered a bit of
a hack, two nodes for the same hardware block. But they are used at
different times, normal runtime, and late in the shutdown. So it works
out O.K.

    Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-12 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-11  9:24 [PATCH] ARM: dts: armada-385-synology-ds116: add support for Synology DS116 NAS Willy Tarreau
2017-02-12  0:40 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-02-12  0:53   ` Willy Tarreau
2017-02-12  1:17     ` Andrew Lunn
2017-02-12  1:24       ` Willy Tarreau
2017-02-12 15:38         ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2017-02-12 15:44           ` Willy Tarreau
2017-02-12 17:27           ` Thomas Petazzoni

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