Re: [PATCH v2 REBASED 00/10] Generic earlyconsole for ARC UART Driver

[Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>]

Hi Greg,

On Wednesday 25 June 2014 02:35 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Vineet Gupta
> <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is slightly modified repost of series posted last week
>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-serial/msg12884.html
>>
>> This series switches ARC UART from custom earlyprintk support to generic
>> earlycon (many thanks to Rob for doing that). And also build on Grant's recent
>> work for using DT stdout-path as default console.
>>
>> The motivation is to get rid of the early platform code, which in turn
>> would help consolidate the init code across several ARC platforms.
>>
>> First 3 patches are general cleanup/refactoring, not necesarily related to
>> earlycon.
> 
> Other than my comment on patch 6:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>

Is something else needed for this to me merged in tty-next for 3.17.
I've had only 1 minor comment from Rob, and my reply to him never reached completion.

Thx,
-Vineet

> 
>>
>> v2 <- v1
>> --------
>> * Rebased on linux-next: 20140623
>> * Patch 9 split into 9 and 10 for driver/platform changes
>> * Patch 10 also uses the DT stdout-path so no need for console=
>>
>>
>> Thx,
>> -Vineet
>>
>>
>> Vineet Gupta (10):
>>   serial/arc: use uart_console_write() helper
>>   serial/arc: Refactor by referencing to uart_port where possible
>>   serial/arc: Remove the workaround for legacy ISS
>>   serial/arc: Use generic earlycon infrastructure
>>   serial/arc: remove earlyprintk support and switch to earlycon
>>   serial/arc: remove last remanants of platform data
>>   serial/arc: inline the probe helper
>>   ARC: [arcfpga] RIP early uart platform device stuff
>>   serial/arc: Enable DT based earlycon
>>   ARC: [arcfpga] stdout-path now suffices for earlycon/console
>>
>>  arch/arc/boot/dts/angel4.dts     |   3 +-
>>  arch/arc/plat-arcfpga/Kconfig    |   7 -
>>  arch/arc/plat-arcfpga/platform.c |  97 +-----------
>>  drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig       |   1 +
>>  drivers/tty/serial/arc_uart.c    | 329 ++++++++++++++-------------------------
>>  5 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 314 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 1.8.3.2
>>
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