On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 01:53:51PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > Hi Geert, > > thanks for taking care of this, is quite a task! > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 07:57:09PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Hi Greg, Simon, Magnus, Sato-san, > > > > This patch series contains several patches for the Renesas SCI serial > > driver: > > - Clean up the naming of clocks in the driver and its DT bindings, > > - Add support for the optional external clock on (H)SCI(F) and some > > SCIFA, where this pin can serve as a clock input, > > - Add support for the optional clock sources for the Baud Rate > > Generator for External Clock (BRG), as found on some SCIF variants > > and on HSCIF. > > Using external clocks increases the range and accuracy of supported baud > > rates. > > > > This series is an updated version of the core (driver) changes of two > > series I sent before: > > - [PATCH v2 00/16] serial: sh-sci: Clock Cleanups > > (http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-serial/msg19762.html) > > - [PATCH 00/25] serial: sh-sci: Add external clock and BRG Support > > (https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/19/550) > > To reduce (cross) dependencies, I split off the integration (DTS) > > patches into separate series: > > - "[PATCH 0/7] ARM: shmobile: dtsi: Add SCIF fallback compatibility > > strings", > > - "[PATCH v3 00/12] ARM: shmobile: dtsi: Rename the serial port > > clock to fck", > > - "[PATCH v2 0/7] ARM: shmobile: dtsi: Add BRG support for (H)SCIF", > > - "[PATCH v2 0/9] ARM: shmobile: dts: Enable SCIF_CLK frequency and > > pins". > > As the SH architecture is orphaned, and the risk of conflicts is small, > > I have bundled all SH-specific changes with the core changes. This > > reduces dependencies, too. > > At this point I see two ways to move things forwards: > > 1. Greg can consider taking this series and I can take the > related integration (DTS) series (noted below) into v4.6. > 2. I can get some missing Acks from Greg (patches 02 and 07 I believe) > and try and queue up this series and the related integration (DTS) > series (noted below). > > As it (perhaps surprisingly) it is late in the merge cycle for me to take > changes for v4.5 that will go though the ARM SoC tree and I am trying to > stabilise things a little. Thus, I favour option 1. I can take them, one question: > > I've also pushed this series (against v4.4-rc1) to the > > topic/scif-clk-sck-brg-core-v3 branch of my renesas-drivers git > > repository at > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/geert/renesas-drivers.git > > > > For testing, you best use the renesas-drivers-2015-12-14-v4.4-rc5 tag, > > as it includes the integration part. Can I just pull from that tag to get everything? That would be the simplest for me... thanks, greg k-h -- 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
