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From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/7] tty: serial: support device tree in pxa
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:17:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2932110.niB1oCsTtu@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110719200515.GB308@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Tuesday 19 July 2011 21:05:15 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 01:53:53PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > > Right. We should probably rename of_serial to 8250_of and remove the qpace
> > > parts from the driver.
> > 
> > In fact, I think we've got about 3 devtree drivers for 8250 serial
> > ports.  I think it is about time for some consolidation work.  :-)
> > 
> > I wonder if we can roll of_serial directly into the 8250.c driver.
> 
> The original serial.c got split into 8250.c, plus several probe modules
> (8250_pnp.c, 8250_pci.c, etc) to get around the problem of lots of
> bus specific crap appearing in the main driver.  8250_of.c would follow
> on that theme.

Yes. Going even further, I'd actually like to pull the ISA bits and the
platform driver out of the 8250.c file as well. While it would be
possible to combine the platform driver with the of driver, I don't
think that's too useful in case of 8250 because the two actually
look quite different.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-19 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2011-07-19  2:24 ` [PATCH 0/7] support DT on ARCH-MMP Haojian Zhuang
2011-07-19  2:24   ` [PATCH 1/7] ARM: mmp: parse irq from DT Haojian Zhuang
2011-07-19  2:24     ` [PATCH 2/7] ARM: mmp: append MMP_USE_OF config Haojian Zhuang
2011-07-19  2:24       ` [PATCH 3/7] ARM: mmp: support DT on both dkb and brownstone Haojian Zhuang
2011-07-19  2:24         ` [PATCH 4/7] tty: serial: support device tree in pxa Haojian Zhuang
2011-07-19  2:24           ` [PATCH 5/7] tty: serial: check ops before registering console Haojian Zhuang
2011-07-19  2:24             ` [PATCH 6/7] i2c: pxa: support i2c controller from DT Haojian Zhuang
2011-07-19  2:24               ` [PATCH 7/7] i2c: pxa: support to parse property Haojian Zhuang
2011-07-19 10:17                 ` Eric Miao
2011-07-19 19:47                   ` Grant Likely
2011-07-19 19:45                 ` Grant Likely
2011-07-20  1:22                   ` Eric Miao
2011-07-19 19:43               ` [PATCH 6/7] i2c: pxa: support i2c controller from DT Grant Likely
2011-07-19 19:40           ` [PATCH 4/7] tty: serial: support device tree in pxa Grant Likely
2011-07-19 19:48             ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-19 19:53               ` Grant Likely
2011-07-19 20:05                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-19 20:17                   ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2011-07-20  1:26                   ` Eric Miao
2011-07-19 13:42         ` [PATCH 3/7] ARM: mmp: support DT on both dkb and brownstone Mitch Bradley
2011-07-19 19:49           ` Grant Likely
2011-07-19 19:36         ` Grant Likely
2011-07-19 19:24       ` [PATCH 2/7] ARM: mmp: append MMP_USE_OF config Grant Likely
2011-07-19 17:39     ` [PATCH 1/7] ARM: mmp: parse irq from DT Grant Likely
2011-07-19  7:12   ` [PATCH 0/7] support DT on ARCH-MMP Jean Delvare

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