Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tty/serial: fix config dependencies for samsung serial | Date | Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:07:31 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 23 September 2014 12:34:26 Abhilash Kesavan wrote: > >> > >> The SERIAL_SAMSUNG_UARTS_4 and SERIAL_SAMSUNG_UARTS config options are > >> meaningful only if SERIAL_SAMSUNG is enabled. Hence the dependency > >> rules were changed. I will repost this patch with better description. > > > > My point is that the options are used by both the uart driver and > > the platform code, e.g. for the purpose of PM debugging which can > > be enabled even when the serial-samsung driver is turned off. > > I looked through the code and could find two references to these > symbols in the platform-specific code: arch/arm/plat-samsung/init.c > and arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/irq-pm.c. The first one is being used to > initialize the uart platform device in non-dt way while the second one > saves and restores the uart irq masks for all channels across a > suspend/resume cycle. Also, the save/restore will get bypassed in case > CONFIG_SERIAL_SAMSUNG_UARTS is not defined. It does not look like > either of these cases would cause any issue with the current patch, > can you please help me understand the problem ?
It's possible that it works fine now, I just pointed out that we had bugs in this area in the past, so it would be good if you can add to the changelog a statement that you have checked that the new patch does not cause problems here.
Arnd
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