Hi Uwe,
> What are the effects for this regarding run time? How often are
> request_port and release_port called? I wonder if it's worth to save
> the value. Or what else than run time is your concern?
I'm not too concerned with the reduction in run time here - I'd like to be
able to parse the UART config from the device tree, rather than using
platform_get_{irq,resource}.
With this patch, all of the existing parsing is done in serial_imx_probe().
This means we can just abstract the parsing once, rather than having to check
what parsing method (platform or devtree) we're using in request_port and
release_port as well.
See serial_imx_probe_pdata and serial_imx_probe_dt in:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=jk/dt/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/serial/imx.c;h=a54f6464d35920a81fdcc9fd93de3283260ab839;hb=2610717ecacfba0db34ad5b28ed6379560108912
for my intended (work-in-progress) approach.
Cheers,
Jeremy
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