[PATCH v4] ARM/serial: at91: switch atmel serial to use gpiolib

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Thu Dec 5 15:28:25 EST 2013


Hello Nicolas,

On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 05:57:04PM +0100, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> On 04/12/2013 20:16, Uwe Kleine-König :
> >On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 09:09:11AM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >>On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 11:23:53AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> >>>Hello Greg, hi Nicolas,
> >>>
> >>>On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 09:47:50AM +0100, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> >>>>On 13/11/2013 17:28, Nicolas Ferre :
> >>>>>On 07/11/2013 10:25, Linus Walleij :
> >>>>>>This passes the errata fix using a GPIO to control the RTS pin
> >>>>>>on one of the AT91 chips to use gpiolib instead of the
> >>>>>>AT91-specific interfaces. Also remove the reliance on
> >>>>>>compile-time #defines and the cpu_* check and rely on the
> >>>>>>platform passing down the proper GPIO pin through platform
> >>>>>>data.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>This is a prerequisite for getting rid of the local GPIO
> >>>>>>implementation in the AT91 platform and move toward
> >>>>>>multiplatform.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>The patch also adds device tree support for getting the
> >>>>>>RTS GPIO pin from the device tree on DT boot paths.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre at atmel.com>
> >>>>>>Acked-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com>
> >>>>>>Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> [...]
> >nferre: What is your plan with this patch? Do you have patches
> >depending on it, too, or is it ok if I take it?
> 
> Well, the problem is that your branch generates conflicts with the
> at91/cleanup one that Olof have just pulled. They are not big
> conflicts, only additions of header files at the same location.
> Maybe you can rebase your branch on top of this cleanup branch
> (arm-soc/next/cleanup: 94c5216ee93b3b4).
Olof said on irc: "that's easy to fix, i'm ok with resolving that when i
merge". That is what I prefer because I don't want to retest everything
after rebasing.
> 
> But, anyway I feel that it is better if you take the whole series in a raw.
So I can interpret this as your blessing to keep the patch in my series
based on 3.13-rc1?

Best regards
Uwe

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