From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932093AbbIXWXx (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Sep 2015 18:23:53 -0400 Received: from mail-gw3-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.64]:26994 "EHLO mail-gw3-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753152AbbIXWXv (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Sep 2015 18:23:51 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.17,583,1437462000"; d="scan'208";a="75783816" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] ARM: dts: consolidate aliases for Cygnus dt files To: Florian Fainelli , Arnd Bergmann References: <1442611454-16331-1-git-send-email-rjui@broadcom.com> <25764744.UdkoAR05y0@wuerfel> <55FC85D6.7050506@broadcom.com> <20046098.CeNft0Jl1D@wuerfel> <56031DAF.5070503@broadcom.com> <56031E42.5010601@gmail.com> CC: Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , "Mark Rutland" , Ian Campbell , Kumar Gala , , , , From: Ray Jui Message-ID: <560477F4.5060508@broadcom.com> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:23:48 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56031E42.5010601@gmail.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 9/23/2015 2:48 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote: > 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! > Hi Florian, I just sent you an incremental patch to move the alias back to .dts files. Thanks, Ray