Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 May 2013 14:11:31 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ARM: EXYNOS: Consolidate multiple low-level UART port definitions | From | Olof Johansson <> |
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Hi,
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Tushar Behera <tushar.behera@linaro.org> wrote: > There are two definitions for low-level UART ports for Exynos platform. > CONFIG_S3C_LOWLEVEL_UART_PORT is used for printing "Uncompressing > Linux... done, booting the kernel." and CONFIG_S3C_UART for other > low-level messages. > > The assumption for both the uart ports is that they are pre-configured > in the bootloader. Since they are essentially the same always, it > would be good to consolidate them to use only one macro, in this case > 'DEBUG_S3C_UART' would be a better option. > > 'DEBUG_S3C_UART' is defined only if DEBUG_LL is enabled. We can safely > disable this option when DEBUG_LL is not defined and we can boot various > boards with different UART port settings. Only drawback of this > approach is that when DEBUG_LL is not defined, we would be missing the > print "Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel." > > Since CONFIG_S3C_LOWLEVEL_UART_PORT is still used by other Samsung > boards, the consolidation applies only for ARCH_EXYNOS. > > Signed-off-by: Tushar Behera <tushar.behera@linaro.org>
This looks reasonable, but you have to convert the other samsung platforms too -- it's not ok to ignore them.
-Olof
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