Re: [PATCH 5/6] tty: serial: Add linflexuart driver for S32V234

From: Will Deacon
Date: Thu Aug 08 2019 - 13:17:19 EST


Hi,

On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 12:47:00PM +0000, Stefan-gabriel Mirea wrote:
> On 8/8/2019 11:08 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 07:47:23PM +0000, Stefan-gabriel Mirea wrote:
> >> + linflex,<addr>
> >> + Use early console provided by Freescale LinFlex UART
> >> + serial driver for NXP S32V234 SoCs. A valid base
> >> + address must be provided, and the serial port must
> >> + already be setup and configured.
> >
> > Why isn't earlycon= sufficient for this?
>
> "earlycon=" is not actually supported. I will fix this in the next
> version by adding a /chosen/stdout-path to the dts. The compatible
> string provided to OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE will also be changed from
> "fsl,s32v234-linflexuart" to "fsl,s32-linflexuart" to match the one in
> the device tree nodes. I missed this after importing a rename from our
> codebase.
>
> Should I remove this addition from kernel-parameters.txt after that?

Yes, if you can use earlycon instead, then you can drop your custom option
entirely and therefore there's no need to document it either.

Will