linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH resend] serial: 8250: Add support for using platform

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Message-ID: <ef125e69-3128-255d-483e-14b50036905f@metux.net>
Date:   Tue, 11 Jun 2019 20:11:06 +0200
From:   "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <lkml@...ux.net>
To:     Esben Haabendal <esben@...bendal.dk>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Darwin Dingel <darwin.dingel@...iedtelesis.co.nz>,
        Jisheng Zhang <Jisheng.Zhang@...aptics.com>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        He Zhe <zhe.he@...driver.com>, Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>,
        Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] serial: 8250: Add support for using
 platform_device resources

On 21.05.19 16:45, Esben Haabendal wrote:
> It sits here.  It is a rather big and clunky mfd driver, not ready for
> upstreaming in its current form.  I hope to get around to clean it up.
> But it is for a very specific hardware that is really available or
> usable for anybody else.  Does it make sense to spend effort on
> submitting such a driver?

Maybe you could post your queue w/ "RFC: " prefix and add a proper
introduction, so everybody knows that isn't meant to be upstreamed,
but instead a basis for discussions ?

Personally, I'd like to have a look at it and understand, what's the
actual problem you'd like to solve.


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Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
Free software and Linux embedded engineering
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