Re: [PATCH 0/5] Add OF support to the sh-sci serial port driver

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[ CCed Greg KH. It is my assumption that he will take this series
  once it is ready ]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:29:54AM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This patch set adds device tree bindings for the sh sci serial port devices
> and adds OF parsing to the sh-sci driver.
> 
> The bindings are based on Bastian Hecht's proposal (see
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg228129.html). The approach taken
> here is more minimalistic: instead of describing all hardware characteristics
> that vary between the SCI device revisions in DT (such as registers layout),
> that information is stored in the driver and selected based on the compatible
> property value. Only SCI revisions used on ARM devices are supported through
> DT, as DT support for SuperH is nowhere down the line.
> 
> The first three patches clean up the sh-sci driver. They're not strictly
> required for OF support but make sense nonetheless. The last two patches add
> OF parsing to the sh-sci driver and create DT bindings documentation.
> 
> The patches have been test on a Lager board (r8a7790-based). Support for other
> SoCs will be added as needed. Note that all current Renesas ARM SoCs seem to
> be compatible with the generic (H)SCI(F)(AB) devices, but the plan is for
> their DT bindings to list the SoC-specific version in case incompatibilities
> are found later.
> 
> Cc: devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Bastian Hecht (1):
>   serial: sh-sci: Add OF support
> 
> Laurent Pinchart (4):
>   serial: sh-sci: Sort headers alphabetically
>   serial: sh-sci: Remove baud rate calculation algorithm 5
>   serial: sh-sci: Simplify baud rate calculation algorithms
>   serial: sh-sci: Add device tree bindings documentation

Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Laurent, is this series waiting on anything other than
a review of the bindings from the Device-Tree people?
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