Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: armada-385-synology-ds116: add support for Synology DS116 NAS

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On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 04:38:55PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 02:24:18AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 02:17:44AM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > > But won't that squat the I/O address and prevent me from using all the
> > > > other codes via the regular serial port ?
> > > 
> > > Nope. That driver hijacks the serial port during shutdown to actually
> > > turn the power off. The rest of the time, it does not touch the serial
> > > port. Userspace, or the rest of the kernel is free to use it.
> > 
> > OK so I should declare both the serial and the power-off device at the
> > same address ? Excuse-me for the dumb question but I'm not much used to
> > doing uncommon things in DTS files :-/
> 
> Hi Willy
> 
> What you have in v2 and v3 looks good. It could be considered a bit of
> a hack, two nodes for the same hardware block. But they are used at
> different times, normal runtime, and late in the shutdown. So it works
> out O.K.

OK thanks for confirming :-)

Willy
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