From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 14:56:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 10/10] drivers: PL011: add support for the ARM SBSA generic UART In-Reply-To: <54BD0A49.8030107@arm.com> References: <1421428986-11300-1-git-send-email-andre.przywara@arm.com> <5407007.ZAjCvvOzus@wuerfel> <54BD0A49.8030107@arm.com> Message-ID: <45882386.HAzdnpUX2E@wuerfel> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Monday 19 January 2015 13:44:41 Andre Przywara wrote: > > > Would we be better off documenting that 8-n-1 is the only allowed settting? > > I can't think of a reason why anyone would use something else. > > Reading the spec again I see that 8-bit word len is mandated: > "The generic UART uses 8-bit words, equivalent to UARTLCR_H.WLEN == b11." > So given this I guess anything other than (8)n1 is pretty useless and > wouldn't probably be used anyways. This means that we can get rid of the > optional properties altogether and just add "current-speed" to the list > of required ones. I am about to implement this. Ok, great! Arnd