Re: [PATCH] Make ATNGW100 serial ports configurable

[Anders Blomdell <anders.blomdell@control.lth.se>]

Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> Anders Blomdell <anders.blomdell@control.lth.se> wrote:
>> Make configuration of ATNGW100 serial ports selectable in kernel configuration.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Anders Blomdell <anders.blomdell@control.lth.se>
> 
> Gak. If we're going down this path, why not add #ifdefs for every other
> conceivable hardware mod as well and turn the ATNGW100 board code into
> an even worse mess than the ATSTK1000 board code?
OK, good point. The reason I sent in the patch is that people on AVRFreaks had
asked how to do it, and putting it in the configuration would (theoretically)
make it possible to catch pin conflicts.


> The ATNGW100 has one serial port on board, so IMO the standard board
> code should only initialize that one port.
Which was my intention, unless SERIAL_ATMEL_USARTn was selected.

> However, it might be sensible to add some sort of interface for
> expansion board code. For example something like this:
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_ATNGW100_EXPANSION
> 	atngw100_setup_expansion_board();
> #endif
Since that file has to reside inside the kernel tree (?), one could almost as
easily replace the entire setup.c.

Shouldn't this be something like:

void __init setup_board(void)
{
...
#ifdef CONFIG_ATNGW100_EXPANSION
 	atngw100_setup_expansion_board();
#endif
}

static int __init atngw100_init(void)
{
...
#ifdef CONFIG_ATNGW100_EXPANSION
 	atngw100_init_expansion_board();
#endif
}

> This will allow people with hardware mods to add all the extra devices
> they need, including serial ports, by simply adding another file with
> expansion board code. People who aren't afraid to solder stuff on their
> boards shouldn't be afraid of writing some board code too, right?
> 
> What do you think?
An even nicer way of handling it (provided that initialization does not need to
take place during boot), might be to do EXPORT_SYMBOL() on
at32_add_device_usart, at32_map_usart, etc and then write a loadable module that
handles the initialization.

Regards

Anders Blomdell


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