Re: [PATCH v4 09/13] serial: sh-sci: Introduced sci_of_data

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Mon Mar 24 2025 - 06:03:50 EST


On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 at 16:26, Thierry Bultel
<thierry.bultel.yh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The aim here is to provide an easier support to more different SCI
> controllers, like the RZ/T2H one.
>
> The existing .data field of_sci_match is changed to a structure containing
> all what that can be statically initialized, and avoid a call to
> 'sci_probe_regmap', in both 'sci_init_single', and 'early_console_setup'.
>
> 'sci_probe_regmap' is now assumed to be called in the only case where the
> device description is from a board file instead of a dts.
>
> In this way, there is no need to patch 'sci_probe_regmap' for adding new
> SCI type, and also, the specific sci_port_params for a new SCI type can be
> provided by an external file.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thierry Bultel <thierry.bultel.yh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes v3->v4:
> - Fix the bot compilation error on superh in sci_probe_earlyprink()

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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