[PATCH v10 10/10] tty: serial: Add Nuvoton ma35d1 serial driver support

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tue, May 9, 2023, at 14:25, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Tue, 9 May 2023, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Tue, May 9, 2023, at 12:17, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
>> > On Mon, 8 May 2023, Jacky Huang wrote:
>> >> +
>> >> +#define UART_NR			17
>> >> +
>> >> +#define UART_REG_RBR		0x00
>> >> +#define UART_REG_THR		0x00
>> >> +#define UART_REG_IER		0x04
>> >> +#define UART_REG_FCR		0x08
>> >> +#define UART_REG_LCR		0x0C
>> >> +#define UART_REG_MCR		0x10
>> >
>> > These duplicate include/uapi/linux/serial_reg.h ones, use the std ones 
>> > directly.
>> >
>> > Setup regshift too and use it in serial_in.
>> 
>> I think this came up in previous reviews, but it turned out that
>> only the first six registers are compatible, while the later
>> ones are all different, and it's not 8250 compatible.
>
> So use the normal name for compatible ones and HW specific names for the 
> others?
>
> It might not be compatible in everything but surely 8250 influence is 
> visible here and there.

I'd rename all of them and share nothing. I had the same thought as you
when I first looked at the driver, and thought of how we merged the omap
uart into 8250 for this reason, but after I found a datasheet for this
one, my impression was that it's a much more distant cousin of 8250
than the others,

There is clearly some family lineage, but there are differences
everywhere, and I don't think it was designed by extending a 8250
compatible hardware block with extra features, but rather built
from scratch (sigh) based only loosely on a register description
but then extending it with no intent of retaining compatibility.

       Arnd