Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:16:43 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/6] serial: Add support for UART on VIA VT8500 and compatibles |
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On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:55:34AM +0400, Alexey Charkov wrote: > This adds a driver for the serial ports found in VIA and WonderMedia > Systems-on-Chip. Interrupt-driven FIFO operation is implemented. > The hardware also supports pure register-based operation (which is > slower) and DMA-based FIFO operation. As the FIFOs are only 16 bytes > long, DMA operation is probably not worth the hassle. > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Charkov <alchark@gmail.com> > --- > > Please review and state whether this could be acceptable for a merge > to mainline in the coming 2.6.37 window.
.37? Aren't you cutting it a bit close here? My trees unofficially closed a few days or so ago for new stuff to go to .37, what kept this from being sent previously?
> If possible, I would deeply appreciate a merge to a relevant git tree > for integration prior to asking Linus to pull the changes. I could > rebase the code if needed, currently this is against Linus' master > branch. > > This patch relies on the basic architecture support for VT8500/WM8505 > to be in place, as introduced by PATCH 1/6 in this series.
So it will just fail to build without that patch?
thanks,
greg k-h
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