Messages in this thread | | | From | Esben Haabendal <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250: Add support for using platform_device resources | Date | Tue, 07 May 2019 13:35:58 +0200 |
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Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> writes: > On Thu, 02 May 2019, Esben Haabendal wrote: > >> Could you help clarify whether or not this patch is trying to do >> something odd/wrong? >> >> I might be misunderstanding Andy (probably is), but the discussion >> revolves around the changes I propose where I change the serial8250 >> driver to use platform_get_resource() in favour of >> request_mem_region()/release_mem_region(). > > Since 'serial8250' is registered as a platform device, I don't see any > reason why it shouldn't have the capability to obtain its memory > regions from the platform_get_*() helpers.
Good to hear. That is exactly what I am trying do with this patch.
@Andy: If you still don't like my approach, could you please advice an acceptable method for improving the serial8250 driver to allow the use of platform_get_*() helpers?
/Esben
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