Re: [PATCH 4/4] serial/arc-uart: switch to devicetree based probing

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday 11 January 2013, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> * DT binding for arc-uart
> * With alll the bits in place we can now use DT probing.
> 
> Note that there's a bit of kludge right now because earlyprintk portion
> of driver can't use the DT infrastrcuture to get resoures/plat_data.
> This requires some infrastructre changes to of_flat_ framework
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: devicetree-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Quick question about the name though: is this UART only used
on ARC, or is it something that synopsys licenses to other
parties as well? If the latter is true, we might want to 
add a more generic "compatible" value for those that use
it on another architecture.

	Arnd
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