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

[David Daney]

On 06/18/2013 12:36 PM, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> 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 ...

At this point I think it is fine if some random configs for OCTEON fail 
to build in v3.10.

I was thinking that this would be for 3.11


David Daney

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/