[PATCH] tty: serial: msm_serial: Use DT aliases

Kevin Hilman khilman at kernel.org
Mon Nov 10 10:54:00 PST 2014


On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> We rely on probe order of this driver to determine the line number for
> the uart port. This makes it impossible to know the line number
> when these devices are populated via DT. Use the DT alias
> mechanism to assign the line based on the aliases node.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org>

FYI... this patch hit linux-next and caused multiple boot failures on
qcom platforms[1] as of next-20141110.  I'm assuming this is because
the corresponding DTS changes have not hit linux-next yet.

Kevin

[1] http://status.armcloud.us/boot/?qcom



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