[PATCH v1 5/5] arm64: dts: meson: a1: change uart compatible string

Conor Dooley conor at kernel.org
Tue Jul 4 10:10:46 PDT 2023


On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 08:08:43PM +0300, Dmitry Rokosov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 06:02:58PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 04:59:36PM +0300, Dmitry Rokosov wrote:
> > > In the current implementation, the meson-a1 configuration incorporates a
> > > unique compatibility tag "amlogic,meson-a1-uart' within the meson-uart
> > > driver due to its usage of the new console device name "ttyS".
> > > Consequently, the previous compatibility tag designated for the
> > > 'amlogic,meson-gx-uart' configuration has become obsolete and is no
> > > longer relevant to the current setup.
> > 
> > I don't really see why you would remove the gx-uart to be honest, and
> > not use it as a fallback. Neil's platform though, so his call :)
> > 
> 
> Because of amlogic,meson-gx-uart has legacy devname, we do not want to
> use it in the A1.

Which I did read in your commit message, fallback being the operative
word here.
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