Re: [PATCH 0/5] MIPS/tty/8250: Use standard 8250 drivers for OCTEON

From: Ralf Baechle
Date: Tue Jun 18 2013 - 15:36:41 EST


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:12:50PM -0700, David Daney wrote:

> From: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Get rid of the custom OCTEON UART probe code and use 8250_dw instead.
>
> The first patch just gets rid of Ralf's Kconfig workarounds for the
> real problem, which is OCTEON's inclomplete serial support.
>
> Then we just make minor patches to 8250_dw, and rip out all this
> OCTEON code.
>
> Since the patches are all interdependent, we might want to merge them
> via a single tree (perhaps Ralf's MIPS tree).

Looks good - I was trying to come up with a kludge good enough for 3.10;
this may be a bit too large ...

Ralf
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