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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/4] switch arc-uart to devicetree based probing
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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