[PATCH v4 08/11] tty: add pruss SUART driver

[Subhasish Ghosh]

>> There should be no build time dependency with this patch
>> (the above patch just changes which pool of SRAM the
>> allocation happens from)
>>
>> But, this brings out an important dependency of the patch
>> calling platform specific sram allocator functions. There
>> has been SRAM allocator consolidation work done by Russell
>> and as a result the SRAM allocator API for DaVinci will
>> actually change.

I earlier had an implementation where I would get the sram memory addresses
through the .resource structure and ioremap it in the driver.

>>The driver should probably just get sram
>> space through platform data so that it doesn't depend on the
>> platform specific sram allocation function.

Are you suggesting that I go back to that implementation.
Also, should I remove the dependency list from the patch comments then.


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From: "Greg KH" <gregkh at suse.de>
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 6:15 PM
To: "Nori, Sekhar" <nsekhar at ti.com>
Cc: "Greg KH" <greg at kroah.com>; "Subhasish Ghosh" 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 08/11] tty: add pruss SUART driver

> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:21:04PM +0530, Nori, Sekhar wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 02:50:56, Greg KH wrote:
>> > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 05:38:26PM +0530, Subhasish Ghosh wrote:
>> > > This patch adds support for the TTY compliant
>> > > Soft-UART device emulated on PRUSS.
>> > >
>> > > This patch depends on:
>> > > davinci: macro rename DA8XX_LPSC0_DMAX to DA8XX_LPSC0_PRUSS.
>> > >             https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/615681/
>>
>> This is already in mainline. Plus this patch
>> doesn't really seem to depend on this commit.
>>
>> > > davinci: changed SRAM allocator to shared ram.
>> > >             https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/549351/
>>
>> There should be no build time dependency with this patch
>> (the above patch just changes which pool of SRAM the
>> allocation happens from)
>>
>> But, this brings out an important dependency of the patch
>> calling platform specific sram allocator functions. There
>> has been SRAM allocator consolidation work done by Russell
>> and as a result the SRAM allocator API for DaVinci will
>> actually change. The driver should probably just get sram
>> space through platform data so that it doesn't depend on the
>> platform specific sram allocation function.
>
> Ok, care to fix up the code then?
>
>> > Who is going to be applying these patches to the tree?
>> >
>> > Should this driver go through a davinci subtree because of these
>> > dependancies?
>>
>> No, driver and platform changes can be merged separately
>> if the above aspect is taken care of. Russell has been
>> pushing back on merging driver patches through his tree
>> unless absolutely required.
>
> That's fine, I'll take it through my tree then, care to resolve the
> above issue and resend it?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h