From: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] switch arc-uart to devicetree based probing
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:46:56 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50F645D8.1080404@synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130116061636.GA5680@kroah.com>
On Wednesday 16 January 2013 11:46 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:50:19AM +0530, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As part of converting ARC Port to devicetree infrastructure, the following
>> series converts the arc-uart driver to DT.
>>
>> * The first patch is a bug-fix which showed up in the process as DT based
>> platform devices by default have -ve id
>> * Next two prepare the driver for forthcoming DT changes.
>> * Last one contains the DT bindings and driver using those.
>>
>> Couple of points worth mentioning:
>> * The earlyprintk portion of driver still relies on static platform data
>> we would need some earlyprintk handling in of_fdt_* to clean it up properly
>> * Two of the three platform data instances are now retrieved from DT.
>> However one still needs to be dynamically passed by platform (using
>> of_dev_auxdata) as we want to run same image in simulator and hardware
>>
>> Tested on in-works ARC 3.8 port.
>>
>> P.S. Greg, can this be treated as a bug-fix for 3.8
> No, because it is not a bugfix, but a new feature, sorry.
>
> greg k-h
NP. Thx a bunch for merging these.
-Vineet
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-16 6:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-11 6:20 [PATCH 0/4] switch arc-uart to devicetree based probing Vineet Gupta
2013-01-11 6:20 ` [PATCH 1/4] serial/arc-uart: Don't index with -ve platform_device->id Vineet Gupta
2013-01-11 6:20 ` [PATCH 2/4] serial/arc-uart: split probe from probe_earlyprintk Vineet Gupta
2013-01-11 6:20 ` [PATCH 3/4] serial/arc-uart: platform_data order changed Vineet Gupta
2013-01-11 6:20 ` [PATCH 4/4] serial/arc-uart: switch to devicetree based probing Vineet Gupta
2013-01-11 11:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-01-11 11:55 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-01-11 20:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-08 23:01 ` Grant Likely
2013-02-09 6:45 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-02-09 9:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-11 8:41 ` [PATCH] serial/arc-uart: Urgent DT related update Vineet Gupta
2013-02-11 8:41 ` [PATCH] serial/arc-uart: Miscll DT related updates (Grant's review comments) Vineet Gupta
2013-02-13 12:37 ` [PATCH] serial/arc-uart: Urgent DT related update Vineet Gupta
2013-02-13 16:38 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-02-14 5:55 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-02-14 17:23 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-02-13 20:47 ` [PATCH 4/4] serial/arc-uart: switch to devicetree based probing Grant Likely
2013-01-16 6:16 ` [PATCH 0/4] switch arc-uart " Greg KH
2013-01-16 6:16 ` Vineet Gupta [this message]
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