[PATCH 1/2] misc: aspeed: Add Aspeed UART routing control driver.

[Oskar Senft]

I just had a look at the upstream kernel - there's no drivers/soc/aspeed. I
did find drivers/soc, but no subdirectory for aspeed. Should I create that
with my commit?

Oskar.

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:19 PM Oskar Senft <osk at google.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the input!
>
> I had a look at get_maintainer.pl, but thought I'd send it to you and
> Linus first to get initial input since we had already talked about it.
>
> I'll move it to drivers/soc/aspeed and will resend.
>
> For clarification: Should I send to ALL of the people and lists that
> get_maintainer.pl spits out?
>
> Thanks
> Oskar.
>
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:15 PM Andrew Jeffery <andrew at aj.id.au> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 5 Sep 2018, at 07:25, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> > On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 10:20 PM Oskar Senft <osk at google.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > This driver adds sysfs files that allow the BMC userspace to configure
>> > > how UARTs and physical serial I/O ports are routed.
>> > >
>> > > Tested: Checked correct behavior (both read & write) on TYAN S7106
>> > > board by manually changing routing settings and confirming that bits
>> > > flow as expected. Tested for UART1 and UART3 as this board doesn't
>> have
>> > > the other UARTs wired up in a testable way.
>> > >
>> > > Signed-off-by: Oskar Senft <osk at google.com>
>> >
>> > After reading some other messages about this I realize it's not very
>> > much you can do with the standard frameworks and you definately
>> > need something like this. Not like I have any better idea.
>> >
>> > Arnd and Greg are misc maintainers so not you will need to
>> > talk to them.
>>
>> Yes. I'm certainly not a person that can merge them.
>>
>> Oskar: Please add at least Greg and Arnd as Linus suggests, and in the
>> future make use of ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl to identify people and
>> lists who should receive the patches.
>>
>> >
>> > I would opt to put it in drivers/soc/aspeed though.
>>
>> Yep, drivers/soc/aspeed seems like a better place. There are other
>> drivers in misc likely should be moved there as well.
>>
>> Thanks for your feedback Linus.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>
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