From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sergei Ianovich <ynvich@gmail.com>
Cc: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
"open list:SERIAL DRIVERS" <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] resolve PXA<->8250 serial device address conflict
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 20:35:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131205043544.GA28580@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1386217896.7152.8.camel@host5.omatika.ru>
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 08:31:36AM +0400, Sergei Ianovich wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 20:12 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 04:10:33PM +0200, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 02:26:45PM +0400, Sergei Ianovich wrote:
> > > > Who makes the decision which way to go?
> > >
> > > Greg and Russel make this decision. By having the pxa driver simply
> > > register 8250 ports would probable reduce the code. Thats about the
> > > biggest benefit from it.
> > >
> > > It would still be something nice to have IMO. Ideally all the
> > > 8250/16x50 UARTs should register the ports with 8250_core.c, and not
> > > create complete uart driver on their own.
> >
> > I agree, this is the best way to resolve this, having a separate uart
> > driver isn't that good at all to be doing, if at all possible.
>
> I'm reading the last message as a confirmation that
> drivers/tty/serial/pxa.c needs to be rewritten using 8250_core.c.
Yes, how much work is this really?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-05 4:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1385879185-22455-1-git-send-email-ynvich@gmail.com>
2013-12-01 6:26 ` [PATCH 01/11] resolve PXA<->8250 serial device address conflict Sergei Ianovich
2013-12-02 9:02 ` Heikki Krogerus
2013-12-02 9:23 ` Sergei Ianovich
2013-12-02 9:49 ` Heikki Krogerus
2013-12-02 10:26 ` Sergei Ianovich
2013-12-02 14:10 ` Heikki Krogerus
2013-12-05 4:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-12-05 4:31 ` Sergei Ianovich
2013-12-05 4:35 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-12-05 4:36 ` Sergei Ianovich
[not found] ` <20131205043544.GA28580-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-05 23:28 ` [PATCH] serial: rewrite pxa2xx-uart to use 8250_core Sergei Ianovich
[not found] ` <1386286149-2855-1-git-send-email-ynvich-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-06 0:02 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
[not found] ` <20131206000253.GC21358-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-06 0:17 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-12-06 9:28 ` Sergei Ianovich
2013-12-06 9:53 ` James Cameron
2013-12-06 10:34 ` Sergei Ianovich
2013-12-06 11:05 ` James Cameron
2013-12-06 0:38 ` James Cameron
2013-12-06 2:55 ` James Cameron
2013-12-06 2:42 ` James Cameron
2013-12-06 9:16 ` Sergei Ianovich
2013-12-06 9:09 ` [PATCH v2] " Sergei Ianovich
2013-12-06 9:28 ` James Cameron
2013-12-09 8:38 ` Heikki Krogerus
2013-12-09 8:44 ` Sascha Hauer
2013-12-09 11:38 ` [PATCH v3] " Sergei Ianovich
2014-01-28 14:14 ` [PATCH 01/11] resolve PXA<->8250 serial device address conflict Pavel Machek
2014-01-28 14:20 ` Sergei Ianovich
2013-12-01 6:26 ` [PATCH 05/11] serial: support for 16550 serial ports on LP-8x4x Sergei Ianovich
2013-12-02 8:48 ` Heikki Krogerus
2013-12-02 11:46 ` Sergei Ianovich
2013-12-02 13:53 ` Heikki Krogerus
2013-12-02 11:30 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-12-02 11:39 ` Sergei Ianovich
2013-12-02 11:52 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-12-02 12:01 ` Sergei Ianovich
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