Re: [PATCH RFC 6/7] serial: Add device tree bindings for GENI based UART Controller

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On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 12:36 PM, Karthik Ramasubramanian
<kramasub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 1/2/2018 8:55 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 09:27:25AM -0700, Karthikeyan Ramasubramanian
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Add device tree binding support for GENI based UART Controller in the
>>> QUP Wrapper.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Karthikeyan Ramasubramanian <kramasub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Girish Mahadevan <girishm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>   .../devicetree/bindings/serial/qcom,geni-uart.txt  | 31
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>   1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
>>>   create mode 100644
>>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/qcom,geni-uart.txt
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/qcom,geni-uart.txt
>>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/qcom,geni-uart.txt
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000..e60ec6a
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/qcom,geni-uart.txt
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
>>> +Qualcomm Technologies Inc. GENI based Serial UART Controller driver
>>> +
>>> +This serial UART driver supports console use-cases. This driver is meant
>>> +only for Generic Interface (GENI) based Qualcomm Universal Peripheral
>>> (QUP)
>>> +cores and isn't backwards compatible.
>>> +
>>> +Required properties:
>>> +- compatible: should contain "qcom,geni-uart, qcom,geni-console"
>>
>>
>> Is console different programming model or just how you are using the
>> h/w? for the latter, drop it as we have stdout-path to select a console.
>
> The console programming model is different from a regular UART port and
> hence the compatible field contains console in it.

And "console" is what the h/w reference manual calls it? If so, then
it is fine. If not, sounds like a Linuxism.

Rob
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