Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:16:36 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] switch arc-uart to devicetree based probing |
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:50:19AM +0530, Vineet Gupta wrote: > Hi, > > As part of converting ARC Port to devicetree infrastructure, the following > series converts the arc-uart driver to DT. > > * The first patch is a bug-fix which showed up in the process as DT based > platform devices by default have -ve id > * Next two prepare the driver for forthcoming DT changes. > * Last one contains the DT bindings and driver using those. > > Couple of points worth mentioning: > * The earlyprintk portion of driver still relies on static platform data > we would need some earlyprintk handling in of_fdt_* to clean it up properly > * Two of the three platform data instances are now retrieved from DT. > However one still needs to be dynamically passed by platform (using > of_dev_auxdata) as we want to run same image in simulator and hardware > > Tested on in-works ARC 3.8 port. > > P.S. Greg, can this be treated as a bug-fix for 3.8
No, because it is not a bugfix, but a new feature, sorry.
greg k-h
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