[PATCH 2/3] [POWERPC] Xilinx: of_serial support for Xilinx uart 16550.

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Fri Mar 21 20:21:05 EST 2008


Grant Likely writes:

> Personally, I'm not fond of this approach.  There is already some
> traction to using the reg-shift property to specify spacing, and I
> think it would be appropriate to also define a reg-offset property to
> handle the +3 offset and then let the xilinx 16550 nodes use those.

Why do we need a reg-offset property when we can just add the offset
to the appropriate word(s) in the reg property?

Paul.



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