There are two other drivers that bind to mrvl,mmp-uart and both of them assume register shift of 2 bits. There are device trees that lack the property and rely on that assumption. If this driver wins the race to bind to those devices, it should behave the same as the older deprecated driver. Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_of.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_of.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_of.c index a1a85805d010..2488de1c4bc4 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_of.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_of.c @@ -130,6 +130,10 @@ static int of_platform_serial_setup(struct platform_device *ofdev, port->flags |= UPF_IOREMAP; } + /* Compatibility with the deprecated pxa driver and 8250_pxa drivers. */ + if (of_device_is_compatible(np, "mrvl,mmp-uart")) + port->regshift = 2; + /* Check for registers offset within the devices address range */ if (of_property_read_u32(np, "reg-shift", &prop) == 0) port->regshift = prop; -- 2.20.1
