[PATCH] Handle reg-shift property for of_serial ports
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Sun Jul 8 03:52:43 EST 2007
On Saturday 07 July 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > the reg-shift property. I'll send a patch shortly, and I'll reorder the
> > match table -- if something claims compatibility with both 8250 and
> > 16550, shouldn't we drive it as the latter?
>
> Certainly. BTW, was there really "ns8250" -- 8250 is Intel's chip?
>
No, you're right. http://playground.sun.com/1275/proposals/Closed/Accepted/384-it.txt
actually mentions that the the name should be "i8250". It also mentions
that the compatible property should contain "pnpPNP,501" for ns16450 and
higher, and "pnpPNP,500" for all serial ports starting from i8250.
Arnd <><
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