Messages in this thread |  | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/4] serial/arc-uart: switch to devicetree based probing | Date | Sat, 9 Feb 2013 09:28:43 +0000 |
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On Saturday 09 February 2013, Vineet Gupta wrote: > On Saturday 09 February 2013 04:31 AM, Grant Likely wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:50:23 +0530, Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com> wrote: > >> +- clock-frequency : the input clock frequency for the UART > >> +- baud : baud rate for UART > > change 'baud' to 'current-speed'. There is already precedence for this > > with other serial devices. > > While I'm OK with this - I can only see of_serial.c following the rule :-) > More importantly I'm not clear about the logistics of this fix. Obviously this has > a bearing on DT files in arch/arc/boot/*. So are such changes (platform + driver) > routed thru the subsystem tree or the arch tree or bits from both with > bisectability not considered - which feels wrong. We have to also consider the > fact that Greg has closed the tty/serial for 3.9. So while I have no objection to > your comment, it seems that the it needs to wait till 3.9-rc1 - or is there an > alternate way.
I'd consider this one a bug fix, so while Greg is not accepting any new features for the serial tree, I think it should still get in that way and should not be controversial as an add-on change.
Arnd
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