On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 06:15:14PM +0300, Sergei Ianovich wrote: > pxa2xx-uart was a separate uart platform driver. It was declaring > the same device names and numbers as 8250 driver. As a result, > it was impossible to use 8250 driver on PXA SoCs. > > Upon closer examination pxa2xx-uart turned out to be a clone of > 8250_core driver. > > Workaround for Erratum #19 according to Marvel(R) PXA270M Processor > Specification Update (April 19, 2010) is dropped. 8250_core reads > from FIFO immediately after checking DR bit in LSR. > > The patch leaves the original SERIAL_PXA driver around. The original > driver is just marked DEPRECATED in Kconfig and C source. When > the original driver is considered safe to remove, no changes > to SERIAL_8250 will be necessary. But, you just broke existing configurations, right? The serial port is a different name now, are you willing to handle the angry users? If so, great, get the platform maintainer to sign off on this please and then resend it. 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
