[PATCH] tty: serial: samsung_tty: support more than 4 uart ports

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 12:33:51PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 27/06/2022 09:15, Chanho Park wrote:
> > Regarding Exynos Auto v9 SoC, it supports uarts up to 12. However, the
> > maximum number of the ports has been derived from
> > CONFIG_SERIAL_SAMSUNG_UARTS and tightly coupled with the config for
> > previous Samsung SoCs such as s3c24xx and s3c64xx. To overcome this
> > limitation, this changes the usage of the definition to UART_NR which is
> > widely used from other serial drivers. This also defines the value to 12
> > only for ARM64 SoCs to not affect the change to previous arm32 SoCs.
> > Instead of enumerating all the ports as predefined arrays, this
> > introduces s3c24xx_serial_init_port_default that is initializing the
> > structure as default value. 
> > Regarding the ports which are greater than 4
> > will be initialized as default value and the fifo size will be retrieved
> > from the DT property.
> 
> You need to explain why you are doing this.
> 
> It's confusing to initialize some statically and some dynamically.

I agree, why not just make them all dynamic?

thanks,

greg k-h