Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: serial: samsung: Add ARTPEC-8 UART

From: Vincent Whitchurch
Date: Wed Mar 09 2022 - 03:58:09 EST


On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 04:41:45PM +0100, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 2:51 AM Vincent Whitchurch
> <vincent.whitchurch@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Add a compatible for the UART on the ARTPEC-8 SoC.
>
> Yes, the diff says that already. Perhaps some explanation why you are
> adding another vendor SoC to Samsung UART and how the h/w is
> different. I can only guess based on having just gone thru this with
> Apple.

The IP has been customized for the ARTPEC-8 SoC but is closely related
to the variants used on the Exynos chips. I can add this information to
the commit message.

The choice of the vendor prefix is similar to the solution chosen in
this patch:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220125031604.76009-2-alim.akhtar@xxxxxxxxxxx/