Re: [PATCH] serial: Fix UPIO_MEM comment

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On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The original semantics of UPIO_MEM did not include the notion of bitness
> and endianness; different drivers used UPIO_MEM to refer to their original
> mmio bitness/endianness. For example, for the 8250 driver this is 8-bit LE
> but for the amba-pl011 driver this is 16-bit LE. Since UPIO_* values are
> userspace ABI via TIOCGSERIAL/TIOCSSERIAL ioctls, the original meaning of
> UPIIO_MEM must remain as it was: the original mmio stride/width/endianness
> of the driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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