[PATCH v4 08/11] tty: add pruss SUART driver

Subhasish Ghosh subhasish at mistralsolutions.com
Wed Apr 27 09:15:06 EDT 2011


 >> >>The driver should probably just get sram
>> >> space through platform data so that it doesn't depend on the
>> >> platform specific sram allocation function.
>>
>> Are you suggesting that I go back to that implementation.
>
> No, the platform code should use the SRAM allocator and
> pass on the allocated memory to the driver.

SG - So, should I call the sram_alloc() in the platform setup function. 
Something like this:

suart_probe() {
...
pdata.setup(&sram_aadr);
...use sram data;
}

suart_remove() {
...
pdata.free(&sram_aadr);
...
} 




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