linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] serial/imx: let probing fail for the dt case without a valid alias

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Message-ID: <20111226015634.GH8240@S2100-06.ap.freescale.net>
Date:	Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:56:35 +0800
From:	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...escale.com>
To:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
CC:	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
	<kernel@...gutronix.de>, Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@...onical.com>,
	Jason Liu <jason.hui@...aro.org>,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial/imx: let probing fail for the dt case without a
 valid alias

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 09:16:34AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> When the uart device is instantiated by dt but dt doesn't provide an
> alias then better let probing fail instead of falling back to an
> unrelated device id used for the line number and no platform data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>

I queued this for 3.3, and will send a pull-request to Greg.

-- 
Regards,
Shawn

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