linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 4/4] serial: pl011: add console matching function

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Date:	Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:19:14 +0100
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:	Aleksey Makarov <aleksey.makarov@...aro.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@...aro.org>,
	Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>,
	Al Stone <ahs3@...hat.com>,
	Christopher Covington <cov@...eaurora.org>,
	Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
	"Zheng, Lv" <lv.zheng@...el.com>, Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>,
	Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 4/4] serial: pl011: add console matching function

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 03:26:39PM +0300, Aleksey Makarov wrote:
> 
> On 06/02/2016 09:02 PM, Aleksey Makarov wrote:
> > 
> > On 05/20/2016 04:03 PM, Aleksey Makarov wrote:
> 
> Hi Russell,
> 
> Can you review this patch please?
> 
> Thank you
> Aleksey Makarov
> 
> >> This patch adds function pl011_console_match() that implements
> >> method match of struct console.  It allows to match consoles against
> >> data specified in a string, for example taken from command line or
> >> compiled by ACPI SPCR table handler.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Aleksey Makarov <aleksey.makarov@...aro.org>
> >> Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
> > 
> > Hi Greg, Russell,
> > 
> > Can you review this patch and consider ACKing it please?
> > It had an ACK from Greg in v7 but since then I changed it a bit.
> > 
> > The patch by Christopher Covington [1] specifies that SBSA uart 
> > does 32-bit access to registers and this breaks the match function.  
> > In this series the function was changed to match when SPCR specifies
> > both mmio32 and mmio access.  I removed Acked-by: Greg from this
> > patch because of these changes.
> > 
> > The difference between v7 and v8:
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c b/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
> > index 4139b64..388edc8 100644
> > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
> > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
> > @@ -2328,10 +2329,10 @@ static int __init pl011_console_match(struct console *co, char *name, int idx,
> >  
> >                 port = &amba_ports[i]->port;
> >  
> > -               if (port->iotype != iotype)
> > +               if (iotype != UPIO_MEM && iotype != UPIO_MEM32)
> >                         continue;
> > -               if ((iotype == UPIO_MEM || iotype == UPIO_MEM32) &&
> > -                   (port->mapbase != addr))
> > +
> > +               if (port->mapbase != addr)
> >                         continue;
> >  
> >                 co->index = i;

I'm looking at this change, and I don't know what effect it ultimately
has.  This is kind of a problem, because I've zero knowledge of ACPI,
and so I can't say whether this change is appropriate or not.  I have
no ARM server platforms (yet), nor any access to them, so I can't even
try it out.

In short, I've no idea.  I guess it's up to those who have come up
with SBSA to decide whether this is an appropriate change or not.

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