Re: [PATCH v4 08/11] tty: add pruss SUART driver

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:21:04PM +0530, Nori, Sekhar wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 02:50:56, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 05:38:26PM +0530, Subhasish Ghosh wrote:
> > > This patch adds support for the TTY compliant
> > > Soft-UART device emulated on PRUSS.
> > > 
> > > This patch depends on:
> > > davinci: macro rename DA8XX_LPSC0_DMAX to DA8XX_LPSC0_PRUSS.
> > >             https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/615681/
> 
> This is already in mainline. Plus this patch
> doesn't really seem to depend on this commit.
> 
> > > davinci: changed SRAM allocator to shared ram.
> > >             https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/549351/
> 
> There should be no build time dependency with this patch
> (the above patch just changes which pool of SRAM the
> allocation happens from)
> 
> But, this brings out an important dependency of the patch
> calling platform specific sram allocator functions. There
> has been SRAM allocator consolidation work done by Russell
> and as a result the SRAM allocator API for DaVinci will
> actually change. The driver should probably just get sram
> space through platform data so that it doesn't depend on the
> platform specific sram allocation function.

Ok, care to fix up the code then?

> > Who is going to be applying these patches to the tree?
> > 
> > Should this driver go through a davinci subtree because of these
> > dependancies?
> 
> No, driver and platform changes can be merged separately
> if the above aspect is taken care of. Russell has been
> pushing back on merging driver patches through his tree
> unless absolutely required.

That's fine, I'll take it through my tree then, care to resolve the
above issue and resend it?

thanks,

greg k-h