Re: [PATCH v3 09/11] serial: 8250_lpss: move Quark code from PCI driver

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Bryan O'Donoghue
<pure.logic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 16:48 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> Intel Quark has DesignWare UART. Move the code from 8250_pci to
>> 8250_lpss.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_lpss.c | 11 +++++++++++
>>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c  | 15 +--------------
>>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_lpss.c
>> b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_lpss.c
>> index 3112e8b..af34189 100644
>> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_lpss.c
>> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_lpss.c
>
> Andy,
>
> If you are going to start removing working PCI devices from the PCI
> config table in favour of a shim in SERIAL_8250_LPSS then the very
> minimum should be some sort of dependency link between SERIAL_8250_LPSS
> and CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PCI in kconfig.
>
> A user could reasonably read the QRK datasheet - switch on
> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PCI and then wonder why no console output happened
> on boot. S/he shouldn't have to know that devices were moved from the
> PCI driver to an LPSS shim driver or that the 8250_lpss driver now
> needs to be selected instead of the intuitively correct 8250_pci
> driver.

That is taken care of since default is set to SERIAL_8250 (you even
don't need to have PCI driver enabled!).
Doesn't work for you?

>
> So assuming you agree with that (profound and sublime) logic and will
> make that dependency linkage then this is fine for me from a QRK POV.
>
> Reviewed-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko