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From: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: dwg@au1.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org,
	John Linn <john.linn@xilinx.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [V2] powerpc: legacy_serial: reg-offset & shift aren't used
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 08:24:38 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa686aa40807070724j4b410e9dhfbea2c0c99046e63@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1215413228.8970.106.camel@pasglop>

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 10:52 -0700, John Linn wrote:
>> The legacy serial driver does not work with an 8250
>> type UART that uses reg-offset and reg-shift. This
>> change updates the driver so it doesn't find the UART
>> when those properties are present on the UART in the
>> device tree for soc devices.
>
> I have some problems with this patch:
>
>  - First if the properties are present but their value match the
> register layout of a standard UART, we will bail out... not nice.

Okay, that can be fixed.

>  - Why don't we just implement support for the reg-shift and
> offset instead ?

We can do this, but this patch was simpler for solving the immediate
problem in .26

g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-07 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-01 17:52 [PATCH] [V2] powerpc: legacy_serial: reg-offset & shift aren't used John Linn
2008-07-07  6:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-07 11:01   ` Josh Boyer
2008-07-07 22:00     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-07 14:24   ` Grant Likely [this message]

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