Re: [-next] serial: 8250: Match legacy NS16550A UARTs

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Apr 15 2021 - 06:44:56 EST


On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 7:13 PM Al Cooper <alcooperx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Older 32-bit only Broadcom STB chips used a NS16550A compatible UART,
> the 8250_bcm7271.c driver can drive those UARTs just fine provided that
> we let it match the appropriate compatible string.

This sounds not correct to me, ns16550a is a national semiconductor product.

Why is it here and not in generic 8250_of?

> + {
> + .compatible = "ns16550a",
> + .data = brcmstb_rate_table_16550a,
> + },


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko