On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 01:00:31PM -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote: > This series of two patches gets rid of some ugly hacks that were in > the qcom_geni_serial driver around dealing with a port that was used > for console output and dealing with a port that was being used for > kgdb. > > While the character reading/writing code is now slightly more complex, > it's better to be consistently configuring the serial port the same > way and doing so avoids some corner cases where the old hacks weren't > always catching properly. > > This change is slightly larger than it needs to be because I was > trying not to use global variables in the read/write functions. > Unfortunately the functions were sometimes called earlycon which > didn't have any "private_data" pointer set. I've tried to do the > minimal change here to have some shared "private_data" that's always > present, but longer term it wouldn't hurt to see if we could unify > more. > > Greg / Andy / Bjorn: > > This series of patches is atop the current Qualcomm tree to avoid > conflicts. Assuming it looks OK, presumably the best way for it to > land would be to get an Ack from Greg and then Bjorn or Andy could > land it. Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
