Re: [PATCH v6 RESEND] serial: rewrite pxa2xx-uart to use 8250_core

[Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>]

Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr> writes:

> From: Sergey Yanovich <ynvich@gmail.com>
>
> pxa2xx-uart was a separate uart platform driver. It was declaring
> the same device names and numbers as 8250 driver. As a result,
> it was impossible to use 8250 driver on PXA SoCs.
>
> Upon closer examination pxa2xx-uart turned out to be a clone of
> 8250_core driver.
>
> Workaround for Erratum #19 according to Marvel(R) PXA270M Processor
> Specification Update (April 19, 2010) is dropped. 8250_core reads
> from FIFO immediately after checking DR bit in LSR.
>
> The patch leaves the original SERIAL_PXA driver around. The original
> driver is just marked DEPRECATED in Kconfig and C source. When
> the original driver is considered safe to remove, no changes
> to SERIAL_8250 will be necessary.
>
> Compiling SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE and SERIAL_PXA_CONSOLE even without
> SERIAL_8250_PXA breaks console for SERIAL_PXA. For this reasons, the new
> and the original drivers are made mutually exclusive.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sergei Ianovich <ynvich@gmail.com>
> CC: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
> CC: James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org>
> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> CC: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
> CC: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
> Reviewed-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
> [rebased on v4.8]
> Tested-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>

Greg, can you take that into you tty tree please ?

Cheers.

--
Robert