From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756106AbbIWVtF (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Sep 2015 17:49:05 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f45.google.com ([209.85.220.45]:35045 "EHLO mail-pa0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753114AbbIWVtD (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Sep 2015 17:49:03 -0400 Message-ID: <56031E42.5010601@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:48:50 -0700 From: Florian Fainelli User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ray Jui , Arnd Bergmann CC: Florian Fainelli , Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , Kumar Gala , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com, devicetree@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] ARM: dts: consolidate aliases for Cygnus dt files References: <1442611454-16331-1-git-send-email-rjui@broadcom.com> <25764744.UdkoAR05y0@wuerfel> <55FC85D6.7050506@broadcom.com> <20046098.CeNft0Jl1D@wuerfel> <56031DAF.5070503@broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: <56031DAF.5070503@broadcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 23/09/15 14:46, Ray Jui wrote: > > > On 9/23/2015 2:31 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> On Friday 18 September 2015 14:44:54 Ray Jui wrote: >>> On 9/18/2015 2:27 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>>> On Friday 18 September 2015 14:24:06 Ray Jui wrote: >>>> >>>> The SoC has at least four uarts according to this, so it seems unlikely that >>>> each board really only uses only the fourth one of them and labels it '0' >>>> on the board. As soon as you get one board that has more than one uart wired >>>> up, you would need to undo this. >>>> >>> >>> I think Scott might have explained this in the past. uart3 is going to >>> be used on all Cygnus boards (including all future boards) because the >>> bootrom was designed to use uart3 as console and that won't change. >>> >>> Let me know if you still think I need to move this back to the dts. >> >> I would still like to see them stay in the .dts file, if only for >> consistency with other platforms. >> >> Also, even if you can guarantee that uart3 is always used for the >> console, that doesn't prevent board designers from adding more than >> one uart, right? >> >> Arnd >> > > Okay. Given that this patch series has been merged by Florian, I'll > submit another patch to move it back to .dts files. You could send me either a replacement patch series (all 9), or an individual patch to replace a previous version (e.g; replace v2 with a v3), or an incremental one, whatever works for you. Thanks! -- Florian