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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:02:36 +0200
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To: Hugo Villeneuve <hugo@...ovil.com>
Cc: gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, jirislaby@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org, 
	mingo@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, 
	andy.shevchenko@...il.com, Hugo Villeneuve <hvilleneuve@...onoff.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] serial: sc16is7xx: split into core and I2C/SPI
 parts (core)

On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 12:01 PM Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 5:48 PM Hugo Villeneuve <hugo@...ovil.com> wrote:
> > From: Hugo Villeneuve <hvilleneuve@...onoff.com>
> >
> > Split the common code from sc16is7xx driver and move the I2C and SPI bus
> > parts into interface-specific source files.
> >
> > sc16is7xx becomes the core functions which can support multiple bus
> > interfaces like I2C and SPI.
> >
> > No functional changes intended.
> >
> > Also simplify and improve Kconfig entries.
> >   - Capitalize SPI keyword for consistency
> >   - Display list of supported ICs each on a separate line (and aligned) to
> >     facilitate locating a specific IC model
> >   - Add Manufacturer name at start of description string
> >   - Add UART keyword to description string
> >
> > Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Hugo Villeneuve <hvilleneuve@...onoff.com>
>
> Thanks for your patch, which is now commit d49216438139bca0
> ("serial: sc16is7xx: split into core and I2C/SPI parts (core)")
> in tty-next (next-20240415 and later).
>
> > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig
> > @@ -1021,41 +1021,30 @@ config SERIAL_SCCNXP_CONSOLE
> >           Support for console on SCCNXP serial ports.
> >
> >  config SERIAL_SC16IS7XX_CORE
> > -       tristate
> > -
> > -config SERIAL_SC16IS7XX
> > -       tristate "SC16IS7xx serial support"
> > +       tristate "NXP SC16IS7xx UART support"
>
> Hence this replaces SERIAL_SC16IS7XX_CORE by SERIAL_SC16IS7XX,
> so arch/mips/configs/cu1??0-neo_defconfig needs to updated.

Or just rename SERIAL_SC16IS7XX_CORE back to SERIAL_SC16IS7XX.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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