netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/3] serial/imx: add device tree support

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Date:	Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:11:32 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>, patches@...aro.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Jason Liu <jason.hui@...aro.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@...onical.com>,
	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] serial/imx: add device tree support

On Saturday 18 June 2011 18:26:55 Grant Likely wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 06:21:46PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> > Should this also support the "clock-frequency" property that 8250-style
> > serial ports support [1]?
> > 
> > For the flow-control properties, should we name that more generic? The
> > same property certainly makes sense for other serial-ports if it does
> > here. OTOH, I'm not sure it's actually reliable, because it also depends
> > on whether the other side of the connection and the cable support hw flow
> > control.
> 
> I'd like to see a few use cases before defining a common property.
> That said, has-rts-cts does sound like a useful generic property.
> Or maybe named "uart-has-rts-cts" to make it clear that it is a uart
> specific binding?
> 


Sounds ok to me.

	Arnd
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