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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:46:56 +0530 From: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com> To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> CC: <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] switch arc-uart to devicetree based probing On Wednesday 16 January 2013 11:46 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:50:19AM +0530, Vineet Gupta wrote: >> Hi, >> >> As part of converting ARC Port to devicetree infrastructure, the following >> series converts the arc-uart driver to DT. >> >> * The first patch is a bug-fix which showed up in the process as DT based >> platform devices by default have -ve id >> * Next two prepare the driver for forthcoming DT changes. >> * Last one contains the DT bindings and driver using those. >> >> Couple of points worth mentioning: >> * The earlyprintk portion of driver still relies on static platform data >> we would need some earlyprintk handling in of_fdt_* to clean it up properly >> * Two of the three platform data instances are now retrieved from DT. >> However one still needs to be dynamically passed by platform (using >> of_dev_auxdata) as we want to run same image in simulator and hardware >> >> Tested on in-works ARC 3.8 port. >> >> P.S. Greg, can this be treated as a bug-fix for 3.8 > No, because it is not a bugfix, but a new feature, sorry. > > greg k-h NP. Thx a bunch for merging these. -Vineet -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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