linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] serial/arc-uart: switch to devicetree based probing

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Date:	Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:33:43 +0000
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>
Cc:	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] serial/arc-uart: switch to devicetree based probing

On Friday 11 January 2013, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> * DT binding for arc-uart
> * With alll the bits in place we can now use DT probing.
> 
> Note that there's a bit of kludge right now because earlyprintk portion
> of driver can't use the DT infrastrcuture to get resoures/plat_data.
> This requires some infrastructre changes to of_flat_ framework
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>
> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Cc: linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Cc: devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org
> Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>
> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
> Cc: linux-serial@...r.kernel.org

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Quick question about the name though: is this UART only used
on ARC, or is it something that synopsys licenses to other
parties as well? If the latter is true, we might want to 
add a more generic "compatible" value for those that use
it on another architecture.

	Arnd
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