[PATCH v1 04/19] tty: serial: 8250: Add NPCM845 UART support

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org
Mon May 23 06:06:52 PDT 2022


On 23/05/2022 14:58, Tomer Maimon wrote:
> Hi Arnd,
> 
> Thanks for your comment.
> 
> On Mon, 23 May 2022 at 14:48, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de
> <mailto:arnd at arndb.de>> wrote:
> 
>     On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 5:50 PM Tomer Maimon <tmaimon77 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:tmaimon77 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_of.c
>     > @@ -333,6 +333,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id
>     of_platform_serial_table[] = {
>     >         { .compatible = "ti,da830-uart", .data = (void
>     *)PORT_DA830, },
>     >         { .compatible = "nuvoton,wpcm450-uart", .data = (void
>     *)PORT_NPCM, },
>     >         { .compatible = "nuvoton,npcm750-uart", .data = (void
>     *)PORT_NPCM, },
>     > +       { .compatible = "nuvoton,npcm845-uart", .data = (void
>     *)PORT_NPCM, },
>     >         { /* end of list */ },
> 
>     If these are compatible devices, it's usually easier to claim
>     compatibility with both the specific chip and the older model
>     as a fallback, to avoid driver changes. This seems to apply to
>     the timer and watchdog devices as well.
> 
> Just to make sure, Do you mean claim in the device tree?
> like
> 
> compatible = "nuvoton,npcm845-timer", "nuvoton,npcm-timer";

compatible = "nuvoton,npcm845-timer", "nuvoton,npcm750-timer"";


Best regards,
Krzysztof



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