From: nicolas.ferre@atmel.com (Nicolas Ferre)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC] ARM: at91: remove at91_register_uart_fns and headers
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:37:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F856D0E.5040802@atmel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFumwP38ghv91gwZ55pQeDDD67_t+61pLqBkvX8wzZk5R-3z5w@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/08/2012 11:55 PM, Andrew Victor :
> hi,
>
>> Yeah, as far as I know, nobody ever used this functionality on AVR32.
>> In fact, I can't even think of a reason to use it.
>>
>> But I seem to recall submitting a patch to remove this functionality a
>> long time ago, and it was struck down. I don't remember the reason,
>> but there's a chance it might still be valid.
>
> Some of the SAN People / Multenet AT91RM9200 boards needed it....
> We needed to use GPIO pins for some of the modem-control signals -
> couldn't use the standard pins since the alternate pin function was
> being used.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew Victor
Hi Andrew,
Well if it is of some interest on your side, I am in favor of keeping
this feature. It is not a so big amount of code and seems quite easy to
maintain...
Thanks a lot to all for your feedback anyway.
Cheers,
--
Nicolas Ferre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-11 11:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-06 16:02 [PATCH RFC] ARM: at91: remove at91_register_uart_fns and headers Joachim Eastwood
2012-04-06 16:19 ` Joachim Eastwood
2012-04-08 18:09 ` Hans-Christian Egtvedt
2012-04-08 21:21 ` Håvard Skinnemoen
2012-04-08 21:55 ` Andrew Victor
2012-04-11 11:37 ` Nicolas Ferre [this message]
2012-04-11 16:35 ` Joachim Eastwood
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