Bug in drivers/serial/of_serial.c?

[Grant Likely]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Stephen Neuendorffer
<stephen.neuendorffer at xilinx.com> wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linuxppc-dev-bounces+stephen=neuendorffer.name at lists.ozlabs.org
> [mailto:linuxppc-dev-
>> bounces+stephen=neuendorffer.name at lists.ozlabs.org] On Behalf Of Arnd
> Bergmann
>> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:33 AM
>> To: Stephen Neuendorffer
>> Cc: John Linn; Alon Ziv; linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
>> Subject: Re: Bug in drivers/serial/of_serial.c?
>>
>> On Thursday 19 November 2009, Stephen Neuendorffer wrote:
>> > If the problem is in the device trees that are being generated, we
>> > should fix the issue there.
>> > We've been trying to avoid putting the fully specified IP versions
> in
>> > the kernel like this, since
>> > the IP changes so often.
>>
>> No, the problem that Alon has is that the firmware currently has no
>> way whatsoever to give a correct device tree, because of-serial.c
>> does not even know about ns16550a.
>>
>> The patch adds both a special-case for the specific uart he
>> is using so that one is grandfathered in and a new compatible
>> value so future boards can specify both ns16550a and ns16550.
>
> That's true...  The 16550a line still needs to get added, but not the
> xlnx-
> specific line.

The xlnx- line should be added and is entirely appropriate for exactly
the reason Arnd stated.

g.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.