linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] serial: 8250: Add support for 8250/16550 as MFD function

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Message-ID: <87pnocm59v.fsf@haabendal.dk>
Date:   Tue, 21 May 2019 13:11:08 +0200
From:   Esben Haabendal <esben@...bendal.dk>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>,
        Vignesh R <vigneshr@...com>, Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
        Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla@...com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] serial: 8250: Add support for 8250/16550 as MFD function

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> writes:

>> I will try ad hold back with this thread until you get back to it.
>
> Ok, I have no idea what is going on here, sorry.  This is a really long
> and meandering thread, and I can't even find the original patches in my
> queue.
>
> So can you resend things and we can start over?  :)

Will do.

> But note, using a mfd for a uart seems VERY odd to me...

Ok.  In my case, I have a pcie card with an fpga which includes 5 uart
ports, 3 ethernet interfaces and a number of custom IP blocks.
I believe that an mfd driver for that pcie card in that case.

/Esben