Re: [PATCH] tty: ar933x_uart: use the clk API to get the uart clock

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:14:25PM +0200, Gabor Juhos wrote:
> The AR933x UARTs are only used on the Atheros AR933x
> SoCs. The base clock frequency of the UART is passed
> to the driver via platform data. The SoC support code
> implements the generic clock API, and the clock rate
> can be retrieved via that.
> 
> Update the code to get the clock rate via the generic
> clock API instead of using the platform data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
> ---
> Note:
> 
> Because the driver specific platform data only contains
> the clock frequency it can be removed. In order to avoid
> merge conflicts between different trees, it will be removed
> by a later patch once this one is merged upstream.

I don't understand what you mean by this.

Also, this patch doesn't even apply to my tty-next tree, so I can't
accept it as-is, so please fix it up, work with the people whose patches
yours is conflicting with, and figure out how to do this with the least
amount of merge issues.

thanks,

greg k-h