From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Lindgren Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] OMAP UART: Add omap-serial driver support. Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:18:50 -0800 Message-ID: <20100127181850.GE23505@atomide.com> References: <63111.192.168.10.88.1264586216.squirrel@dbdmail.itg.ti.com> <20100127172526.GB23505@atomide.com> <87y6jjwi9e.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> <20100127175737.GD23505@atomide.com> <87iqanwhe4.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.71]:54917 "EHLO mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754182Ab0A0SSb (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:18:31 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87iqanwhe4.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Kevin Hilman Cc: "Govindraj.R" , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org * Kevin Hilman [100127 10:05]: > Tony Lindgren writes: > > > * Kevin Hilman [100127 09:46]: > >> Tony Lindgren writes: > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> > > >> > Do you have the board related patches somewhere so people can > >> > actually test this driver? > >> > > >> > >> Tony, the board/platform related patches are in my pm-wip/uart branch > >> as part of the conversion of that code to hwmod/omap_device. > >> > >> This patch on top of that branch is working fine, at least for > >> basic console. > > > > OK. What's the dependency to the PM branch with these UART > > patches? > > The driver itself has no dependencies. > > But the platform changes and conversion to hwmod/omap_device have all > been done on top of the PM branch + various ongoing hwmod/omap_device > patches. Sounds like we should do all the hwmod conversion patches against the mainline nowadays to cut down the dependencies. If there are some dependencies still to PM branch, those should be patched away ASAP. Adding new device drivers should not have any dependencies except the mainline kernel :) Tony