On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 02:40:12PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 04:30:37PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > > From: Grzegorz Sygieda <grzegorz.sygieda@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > This patch allows to control the pl011 clock using set_termios > > callback. Any positive baudrate passed enables clock, otherwise > > disables. This saves a lot of power on submicron designs since > > we can clock off and disable unused UARTs. > > That's nice, but it seems like an overload of what people traditionally > think of when it comes to baud rates. Why not just power down ports > that are not open instead? We already do. My question to Linus (in a previous message) is why this isn't sufficient. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
