linux-kernel - Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support

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Message-ID: <20160115194022.GA8371@amd>
Date:	Fri, 15 Jan 2016 20:40:22 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	"H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@...delico.com>
Cc:	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	List for communicating with real GTA04 owners 
	<gta04-owner@...delico.com>, tomeu@...euvizoso.net,
	NeilBrown <neil@...wn.name>,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	Marek Belisko <marek@...delico.com>
Subject: Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4

On Fri 2016-01-15 10:34:51, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Am 13.01.2016 um 20:15 schrieb Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>:
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 02:28:00PM +0100, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> >> Hi Tomeu,
> >> 
> >> Am 12.01.2016 um 14:06 schrieb Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu@...euvizoso.net>:
> >> 
> >>> On 11 May 2015 at 03:56, NeilBrown <neil@...wn.name> wrote:
> >>>> Hi all,
> >>>> here is version 4 of my "UART slave device" patch set, previously
> >>>> known as "tty slave devices".
> >>> 
> >>> Hi Neil,
> >>> 
> >>> do you (or someone else) have plans to continue this work in the short
> >>> or medium term?
> >> 
> >> yes, there is something in our upstreaming pipeline. This one works for us on top of 4.4.0:
> >> 
> >> <http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-kernel.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/work/hns/misc/w2sg-tty-slave2-v4>
> >> 
> >> There is one point still to be solved: the exact style of the DT bindings.
> >> 
> >> We have an idea how a driver can implement two different styles (child node AND phandle)
> >> so that it is up to the DTS developer to use the one that best fits into the existing DTS.
> > 
> > From my perspective as a binding maintainer, and as I stated before, the
> > child node approach made the most sense and was most consistent with the
> 
> > way we handle other devices.
> 
> I simply don't see that this is the most common way other devices
> are handled.

You promised to shut up once maintainers speak, that happened, and you
did not shut up. Just do it now.

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