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

[Vineet Gupta]

On Wednesday 16 January 2013 11:46 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> 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

NP. Thx a bunch for merging these.
-Vineet
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