Re: [PATCH 0/3] Support MPS2 UART controller

From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Fri May 06 2016 - 10:32:25 EST


On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:47 AM, Vladimir Murzin
<vladimir.murzin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> These patches allow to use UART controller found on MPS2 platform.

Did you intend this driver to support being modular? It has a bool Kconfig
(not tristate) which makes the module_exit dead code.

If it will always be builtin (with console as primary use case) then you can
see commit 89ebc27427695bfc1e769f1dd99bd243d332ac7a as a possible
update suggestion.

P.
--

>
> Following [1], please, consider to merge them into tty/serial tree.
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/23/190
>
> Thanks!
>
> Vladimir Murzin (3):
> dt-bindings: document the MPS2 UART bindings
> serial: mps2-uart: add MPS2 UART driver
> serial: mps2-uart: add support for early console
>
> .../devicetree/bindings/serial/arm,mps2-uart.txt | 19 +
> drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig | 13 +
> drivers/tty/serial/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/tty/serial/mps2-uart.c | 625 ++++++++++++++++++++
> include/uapi/linux/serial_core.h | 3 +
> 5 files changed, 661 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/arm,mps2-uart.txt
> create mode 100644 drivers/tty/serial/mps2-uart.c
>
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