[PATCH 2/3] 82xx: Parse SMC serial device node in DTS

Mark Zhan rongkai.zhan at windriver.com
Wed Jul 18 00:29:35 EST 2007


On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 15:06 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Mark Zhan wrote:
> > Yes, basically I agree what you say. That should be the right way. 
> > 
> > but, the current situation is that: in all DTS files that are using smc
> > or scc as uart device, all device node definitions have the same
> > "compatible" property -- "cpm_uart"
> > 
> > So what I do here is just following the upstream source tree.
> > 
> 
> Well, AFAICS, all of them currently use scc. The 8xx platforms don't
> even build correctly in the mainline kernel, so I guess it would
> be good to change them to also list fsl,cpm-smc in the compatible
> property.

That probably could be done by another series of patches, and I really
don't want to introduce those kinds of patches in my BSP patches. I
don't know if the 8xx/82xx series patches from Scott Wood will cover
this issue or not. We can wait for them to see where thing will go.

Thanks
mark zhan



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