Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:39:19 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Support specifying DW APB UARTSs in device platform_data |
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:48:45 +0000 "Will Newton" <will.newton@gmail.com> wrote:
> This patch allows the private_data field to be specified in > platform_data for the standard 8250/16550 UART. This field is used by > DW APB type UARTs and without this patch it's only possible to set > this field when registering the port by hand. If private_data is not > set then the > driver will potentially oops with a NULL pointer dereference.
Fine by me.
Alan
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