[PATCH] ARM: bcm2835: add label for uart0

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Tue Oct 6 19:26:22 PDT 2015


On 10/06/2015 03:53 PM, Eric Anholt wrote:
> Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren at i2se.com> writes:
> 
>> This patch adds a label for uart0 to allow changing of uart0
>> pins.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren at i2se.com>
> 
> This patch seems innocuous, but could you clarify for me how
> exactly you change the uart0 pins, and why one would do that?

I /assume/ this is so that some other DT file (that includes the
edited file) can add some pinctrl-related properties to this DT node,
using syntax such as:

&uart0 {
    new content;
};

If so, the patch,
Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org>



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