Re: [PATCH 0/4] switch arc-uart to devicetree based probing

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:50:19AM +0530, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As part of converting ARC Port to devicetree infrastructure, the following
> series converts the arc-uart driver to DT.
> 
> * The first patch is a bug-fix which showed up in the process as DT based
>   platform devices by default have -ve id
> * Next two prepare the driver for forthcoming DT changes.
> * Last one contains the DT bindings and driver using those.
> 
> Couple of points worth mentioning:
> * The earlyprintk portion of driver still relies on static platform data
>   we would need some earlyprintk handling in of_fdt_* to clean it up properly
> * Two of the three platform data instances are now retrieved from DT.
>   However one still needs to be dynamically passed by platform (using
>   of_dev_auxdata) as we want to run same image in simulator and hardware
> 
> Tested on in-works ARC 3.8 port.
> 
> P.S. Greg, can this be treated as a bug-fix for 3.8

No, because it is not a bugfix, but a new feature, sorry.

greg k-h
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