[PATCH] ARM: dts: armada-385-synology-ds116: add support for Synology DS116 NAS

Willy Tarreau w at 1wt.eu
Sat Feb 11 17:24:18 PST 2017


On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 02:17:44AM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > But won't that squat the I/O address and prevent me from using all the
> > other codes via the regular serial port ?
> 
> Nope. That driver hijacks the serial port during shutdown to actually
> turn the power off. The rest of the time, it does not touch the serial
> port. Userspace, or the rest of the kernel is free to use it.

OK so I should declare both the serial and the power-off device at the
same address ? Excuse-me for the dumb question but I'm not much used to
doing uncommon things in DTS files :-/

Willy



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