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From: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
To: Tushar Behera <tushar.behera@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de,
	patches@linaro.org, kgene.kim@samsung.com, olof@lixom.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: EXYNOS: Consolidate multiple low-level UART port definitions
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 11:20:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871u8n105e.fsf@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1369888827-9427-1-git-send-email-tushar.behera@linaro.org> (Tushar Behera's message of "Thu, 30 May 2013 10:10:27 +0530")

Tushar Behera <tushar.behera@linaro.org> writes:

> There are two definitions for low-level UART ports for Exynos platform.
> CONFIG_S3C_LOWLEVEL_UART_PORT is used for printing "Uncompressing
> Linux... done, booting the kernel." and CONFIG_S3C_UART for other
> low-level messages.
>
> The assumption for both the uart ports is that they are pre-configured
> in the bootloader. Since they are essentially the same always, it
> would be good to consolidate them to use only one macro, in this case
> 'DEBUG_S3C_UART' would be a better option.
>
> 'DEBUG_S3C_UART' is defined only if DEBUG_LL is enabled. We can safely
> disable this option when DEBUG_LL is not defined and we can boot various
> boards with different UART port settings. Only drawback of this
> approach is that when DEBUG_LL is not defined, we would be missing the
> print "Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel."

Perfectly acceptable to me (and already the case on OMAP.)

> Since CONFIG_S3C_LOWLEVEL_UART_PORT is still used by other Samsung
> boards, the consolidation applies only for ARCH_EXYNOS.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tushar Behera <tushar.behera@linaro.org>

Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-31 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-30  4:40 [PATCH] ARM: EXYNOS: Consolidate multiple low-level UART port definitions Tushar Behera
2013-05-30 21:11 ` Olof Johansson
2013-05-31  2:58   ` Tushar Behera
2013-05-31 18:20 ` Kevin Hilman [this message]
2013-06-04  9:43   ` Tushar Behera

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