From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760885AbcBYQYd (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:24:33 -0500 Received: from mail132-22.atl131.mandrillapp.com ([198.2.132.22]:20235 "EHLO mail132-22.atl131.mandrillapp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753461AbcBYQYc convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:24:32 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 900 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:24:32 EST From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tty/serial: at91: restore dynamic driver binding To: Nicolas Ferre Cc: Romain Izard , , , Paul Gortmaker , Jiri Slaby , linux-arm-kernel Message-Id: <20160225160929.GA20373@kroah.com> References: <1456392221-30401-1-git-send-email-romain.izard.pro@gmail.com> <56CED0E3.5070308@atmel.com> In-Reply-To: <56CED0E3.5070308@atmel.com> X-Report-Abuse: Please forward a copy of this message, including all headers, to abuse@mandrill.com X-Report-Abuse: You can also report abuse here: http://mandrillapp.com/contact/abuse?id=30481620.bc467339cffb465c8f7d499e6cc42c3c X-Mandrill-User: md_30481620 Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:09:30 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:01:07AM +0100, Nicolas Ferre wrote: > Le 25/02/2016 10:23, Romain Izard a écrit : > > In commit c39dfebc7798956fd2140ae6321786ff35da30c3, the modular support > > code for atmel_serial was removed, as the driver cannot be built as a > > module. Because no use case was proposed, the dynamic driver binding > > support was removed as well. > > > > The atmel_serial driver can manage up to 7 serial controllers, which are > > multiplexed with other functions. For example, in the Atmel SAMA5D2, the > > Flexcom controllers can work as USART, SPI or I2C controllers, and on > > all Atmel devices serial lines can be reconfigured as GPIOs. > > > > My use case uses GPIOs to transfer a firmware update using a custom > > protocol on the lines used as a serial port during the normal life of > > the device. If it is not possible to unbind the atmel_serial driver, the > > GPIO lines remain reserved and prevent this case from working. > > > > This patch reinstates the atmel_serial_remove function, and fixes it as > > it failed to clear the "clk" field on removal, triggering an oops when > > a device was bound again after being unbound. > > > > Signed-off-by: Romain Izard > > Even if you didn't follow my advice for not including unneeded changes > in of the last patch chunk, there's no use delaying the patch just for > this. So, here is my: Yes there is, I'm not going to take this, Romain please fix it properly. greg k-h