Re: [PATCH 13/28] dt-bindings: serial: move Marvell compatible string to 8250 binding doc

From: Rob Herring
Date: Thu Mar 19 2020 - 12:09:35 EST


On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 7:48 AM Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 10:39:07AM +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
> > These ports are compatible with NS8250 and handled by the same driver.
> > Get rid of the extra document that fails to document the properties that
> > are actually supported.
>
> Hi Lubmir
>
> This is needs a bit closer examination. By the PXA maintainers. It
> appears there are two serial drivers, the 8250 and a PXA specific
> driver.

Yes, but that is independent of the binding.

The PXA driver (serial/pxa.c) is already deprecated in favor of
8250_pxa.c. That was 3.5 years ago now, so maybe time to remove the
old one.

Rob