Re: [PATCH v5] OMAP UART: Add omap-serial driver support.

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com> [100127 11:08]:
> Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> writes:
> 
> > * Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com> [100127 10:05]:
> >> Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> writes:
> >> 
> >> > * Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com> [100127 09:46]:
> >> >> Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> 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.
> 
> Agreed, and already done.  I'm collecting the various hwmod,
> omap_device conversion patches floating around and have them in a
> branch of my PM tree based on mainline.
> 
> However, so far I have only been testing them when combined with the
> rest of the PM branch.

OK cool.
 
> > Adding new device drivers should not have any dependencies except
> > the mainline kernel :)
> 
> In general that's true.  But for all new drivers, I think we need to
> require that they use hwmod + omap_device so we don't have to do that
> part twice.  Since the hwmod + omap_device stuff has a little ways to
> go, there will be some out-of-tree dependencies.

Sounds fair to me as long as we work out any out-of-mainline-tree
dependencies for adding drivers.

Tony