linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] serial: 8250

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Message-ID: <Ztr5u2wEt8VF1IdI@black.fi.intel.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 15:46:51 +0300
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To: Parker Newman <parker@...est.io>
Cc: Parker Newman <pnewman@...necttech.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] serial: 8250_exar: Clean up the driver

On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 02:33:03PM -0400, Parker Newman wrote:
> On Fri,  3 May 2024 20:15:52 +0300
> Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > After a rework for CONNTECH was done, the driver may need a bit of
> > love in order to become less verbose (in terms of indentation and
> > code duplication) and hence easier to read.
> >
> > This clean up series fixes a couple of (not so critical) issues and
> > cleans up the recently added code. No functional change indented by
> > the cleaning up part.
> >
> > Parker, please test this and give your formal Tested-by tag
> > (you may do it by replying to this message if all patches are
> >  successfully tested; more details about tags are available in
> >  the Submitting Patches documentation).
> 
> I was able to test the Connect Tech related code and everything is
> work as expected. I can't test the non-CTI related changes but they
> are pretty minor.
> 
> Tested-by: Parker Newman <pnewman@...necttech.com>

Sorry for blast from the past, but I have some instersting information
for you. We now have spi-gpio and 93c46 eeprom drivers available to be
used from others via software nodes, can you consider updating your code
to replace custom bitbanging along with r/w ops by the instantiating the
respective drivers?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko