[PATCH 6/6] serial: add amba-pl011-pci
Alessandro Rubini
rubini at gnudd.com
Sat May 26 05:27:12 EDT 2012
>> + default y if STA2X11
>
> I don't think we want to encourage an ever growing list of platforms
> here. If we did this on ARM, this would be hellishly long.
Ok.
> NAK. We have interfaces in the AMBA code for dynamically allocating
> AMBA devices now - please use them instead of coding your own. They
> avoid bugs.
Sure. Thanks for noting. Maybe it wasn't there when I coded this
initially. Will do.
>> + printk(KERN_INFO "%s %i\n", __func__, __LINE__);
>
> This looks like debugging.
Yes. After sending I noted this and another point. I apologize.
Version 2 will be fixed in all respects.
> This comes nowhere close to being sane with the driver model. [...]
> In other words, save off the platform data pointer, unregister the struct
> device, and then free the platform data (it will not be used at that point.)
Thanks a lot for this and also the comments on APB/AHB in the other message.
/alessandro
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