[RFC PATCH 0/2] serial: Hack up 8520.c for evil device tree hookin.
David Daney
ddaney at caviumnetworks.com
Thu Mar 17 12:26:05 EST 2011
I wanted to get some feedback on my attempts to control my serial
device registration with device tree data.
It was suggested by Grant Likely that I could use of_serial.c for my
purposes. However I think it is simpler to do my own registration
code, because I need to set my own device type, required port flags,
and I/O functions, instead of using general purpose ones. Adding this
to of_serial.c would be quite ugly, so I would like to keep it with my
chip/board code.
This leads to a problem: You cannot call serial8250_register_port()
until the 8250.c driver is registered. of_serial.c is lucky that it
comes after 8250.c in the make file so that the device initcall order
is correct. When I put the code in my board's serial.c file, I am not
so lucky. To get the initialization order correct, I add a notifier
chain to 8250.c
What say you all to this approach?
David Daney (2):
serial: 8250: Add a notifier chain for driver registration.
MIPS: Octeon: Use device tree to register serial ports.
arch/mips/cavium-octeon/serial.c | 140 ++++++++++++++++----------------------
drivers/tty/serial/8250.c | 20 ++++++
include/linux/serial_8250.h | 21 ++++++
3 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)
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