Re: [PATCH 10/13] tty: serial: omap: remove some dead code

[Felipe Balbi]

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 08:43:05AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:35:04 -0500 Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On 04/23/2014 09:58 AM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > > nobody passes a DTR_gpio to this driver, so
> > > this code is not necessary.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > 
> > Niel,
> > this seems to revert the functionality introduced in
> > commit 9574f36fb801035f6ab0fbb1b53ce2c12c17d100
> > (OMAP/serial: Add support for driving a GPIO as DTR.)
> > 
> > would you like to Ack this change?
> 
> I have a couple of out-of-tree drivers that use this support.
> 
> I hope to get back to working on that code one day and even get those drivers
> upstream.  So I would really prefer this code to remain if it isn't causing
> any actual problems.

it causes problem with DT (not really). That suport is only available on
legacy platform_data-based boot, it's not available on DT. I hear Tony
is pretty close to turning OMAP3 DT-only.

> Of course, I can always re-submit it when I need it again, but that it just
> extra work all around.

I wonder how you will pass those attributes through DT considering they
are *really* SW configuration. Why can't you use the real DTR pin, btw ?

-- 
balbi

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