From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965055AbWH2QR2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:17:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965056AbWH2QR2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:17:28 -0400 Received: from ftp.linux-mips.org ([194.74.144.162]:5514 "EHLO ftp.linux-mips.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965055AbWH2QR1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:17:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:17:48 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org, paulkf@microgate.com, takata@linux-m32r.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [CFT:PATCH] Removing possible wrong asm/serial.h inclusions Message-ID: <20060829161748.GF29289@linux-mips.org> References: <20060828085244.GA13544@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060828085244.GA13544@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 09:52:44AM +0100, Russell King wrote: > asm/serial.h is supposed to contain the definitions for the architecture > specific 8250 ports for the 8250 driver. It may also define BASE_BAUD, > but this is the base baud for the architecture specific ports _only_. > > Therefore, nothing other than the 8250 driver should be including this > header file. In order to move towards this goal, here is a patch which > removes some of the more obvious incorrect includes of the file. > > MIPS and PPC has rather a lot of stuff in asm/serial.h, some of it looks > related to non-8250 ports. Hence, it's not trivial to conclude that > these includes are indeed unnecessary, so can mips and ppc people please > test this patch carefully. The MIPS bits were just unused leftovers from the days when the arch code did did register serials & consoles. So for the MIPS bits: Acked-by: Ralf Baechle Ralf