[PATCH v2] ucc_uart: add support for Freescale QUICCEngine UART
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Jan 3 05:12:26 EST 2008
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 04:10:54PM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Anton Vorontsov wrote:
>
> >> + ucc at 2400 {
> >> + device_type = "serial";
> >> + compatible = "ucc_uart";
> >> + model = "UCC";
> >
> > model isn't used, is it needed at all?
>
> I have no idea, but all the other UCC nodes have it, so I'm going to
> keep it. Maybe one day we'll merge QE and CPM drivers, so this would be
> useful.
No, it wouldn't -- that's what compatible is for.
> >> +static struct of_platform_driver ucc_uart_of_driver = {
> >> + .owner = THIS_MODULE,
> >> + .name = "ucc_uart",
> >
> > Maybe better fsl,ucc_uart?
fsl,qe-uart is defined by Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt.
> The CPM serial driver uses "cpm_uart" and the QE ethernet driver uses
> "ucc_geth", so ucc_uart matches the pattern.
cpm_uart is a legacy match -- the current binding specifies
fsl,cpm1-smc-uart, fsl,cpm2-scc-uart, etc.
-Scott
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