linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Support MPS2 UART controller

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Date:	Fri, 6 May 2016 10:31:49 -0400
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@....com>
Cc:	"gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	jslaby@...e.com, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	sudeep.holla@....com, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Support MPS2 UART controller

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:47 AM, Vladimir Murzin
<vladimir.murzin@....com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> These patches allow to use UART controller found on MPS2 platform.

Did you intend this driver to support being modular?  It has a bool Kconfig
(not tristate) which makes the module_exit dead code.

If it will always be builtin (with console as primary use case) then you can
see commit 89ebc27427695bfc1e769f1dd99bd243d332ac7a as a possible
update suggestion.

P.
--

>
> Following [1], please, consider to merge them into tty/serial tree.
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/23/190
>
> Thanks!
>
> Vladimir Murzin (3):
>   dt-bindings: document the MPS2 UART bindings
>   serial: mps2-uart: add MPS2 UART driver
>   serial: mps2-uart: add support for early console
>
>  .../devicetree/bindings/serial/arm,mps2-uart.txt   |   19 +
>  drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig                         |   13 +
>  drivers/tty/serial/Makefile                        |    1 +
>  drivers/tty/serial/mps2-uart.c                     |  625 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/uapi/linux/serial_core.h                   |    3 +
>  5 files changed, 661 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/arm,mps2-uart.txt
>  create mode 100644 drivers/tty/serial/mps2-uart.c
>
> --
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