From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vineet Gupta Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] switch arc-uart to devicetree based probing Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:46:56 +0530 Message-ID: <50F645D8.1080404@synopsys.com> References: <1357885223-19243-1-git-send-email-vgupta@synopsys.com> <20130116061636.GA5680@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from alvesta.synopsys.com ([198.182.60.77]:34404 "EHLO alvesta.synopsys.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757831Ab3APGRK (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:17:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20130116061636.GA5680@kroah.com> Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org To: Greg KH Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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