Re: [PATCH 0/5] Add OF support to the sh-sci serial port driver

[Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 01:30:12PM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> On Thursday 31 October 2013 14:21:16 Simon Horman wrote:
> > [ CCed Greg KH. It is my assumption that he will take this series
> >   once it is ready ]
> > 
> > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:29:54AM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > This patch set adds device tree bindings for the sh sci serial port
> > > devices and adds OF parsing to the sh-sci driver.
> > > 
> > > The bindings are based on Bastian Hecht's proposal (see
> > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg228129.html). The approach
> > > taken here is more minimalistic: instead of describing all hardware
> > > characteristics that vary between the SCI device revisions in DT (such as
> > > registers layout), that information is stored in the driver and selected
> > > based on the compatible property value. Only SCI revisions used on ARM
> > > devices are supported through DT, as DT support for SuperH is nowhere
> > > down the line.
> > > 
> > > The first three patches clean up the sh-sci driver. They're not strictly
> > > required for OF support but make sense nonetheless. The last two patches
> > > add OF parsing to the sh-sci driver and create DT bindings documentation.
> > > 
> > > The patches have been test on a Lager board (r8a7790-based). Support for
> > > other SoCs will be added as needed. Note that all current Renesas ARM
> > > SoCs seem to be compatible with the generic (H)SCI(F)(AB) devices, but
> > > the plan is for their DT bindings to list the SoC-specific version in
> > > case incompatibilities are found later.
> > > 
> > > Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
> > > 
> > > Bastian Hecht (1):
> > >   serial: sh-sci: Add OF support
> > > 
> > > Laurent Pinchart (4):
> > >   serial: sh-sci: Sort headers alphabetically
> > >   serial: sh-sci: Remove baud rate calculation algorithm 5
> > >   serial: sh-sci: Simplify baud rate calculation algorithms
> > >   serial: sh-sci: Add device tree bindings documentation
> > 
> > Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
> > 
> > Laurent, is this series waiting on anything other than a review of the
> > bindings from the Device-Tree people?
> 
> It's only waiting for review of the DT bindings and their implementation 
> (patches 4/5 and 5/5). As I've modified Bastian's patch in 4/5 I'd like to 
> give him an opportunity to review it as well.

Understood.