From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tushar.behera@linaro.org (Tushar Behera) Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:13:05 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: EXYNOS: Consolidate multiple low-level UART port definitions In-Reply-To: <871u8n105e.fsf@linaro.org> References: <1369888827-9427-1-git-send-email-tushar.behera@linaro.org> <871u8n105e.fsf@linaro.org> Message-ID: <51ADB6A9.8030006@linaro.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 05/31/2013 11:50 PM, Kevin Hilman wrote: > Tushar Behera writes: > >> There are two definitions for low-level UART ports for Exynos platform. >> CONFIG_S3C_LOWLEVEL_UART_PORT is used for printing "Uncompressing >> Linux... done, booting the kernel." and CONFIG_S3C_UART for other >> low-level messages. >> >> The assumption for both the uart ports is that they are pre-configured >> in the bootloader. Since they are essentially the same always, it >> would be good to consolidate them to use only one macro, in this case >> 'DEBUG_S3C_UART' would be a better option. >> >> 'DEBUG_S3C_UART' is defined only if DEBUG_LL is enabled. We can safely >> disable this option when DEBUG_LL is not defined and we can boot various >> boards with different UART port settings. Only drawback of this >> approach is that when DEBUG_LL is not defined, we would be missing the >> print "Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel." > > Perfectly acceptable to me (and already the case on OMAP.) > >> Since CONFIG_S3C_LOWLEVEL_UART_PORT is still used by other Samsung >> boards, the consolidation applies only for ARCH_EXYNOS. >> >> Signed-off-by: Tushar Behera > > Acked-by: Kevin Hilman > Thanks Kevin. I have an updated version of this patch updated for all of Samsung platforms.[1] [1] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1723429 -- Tushar Behera