Hi Alan, On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Today's build failed because there's a new user in the MIPS tree: >> arch/mips/cavium-octeon/serial.c >> >> http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/6739341/ > > The version in the tree I have registers a platform device rather than > calling into 8250 directly. That appears to be rather better mannered > than whatever you are building. > > If someone has moved from the platform device could they kindly explain > *why* ? commit 7c507e6fe36d8e8f67a06d1f81ddde4d8ecf739f ("MIPS: Octeon: Use device tree to register serial ports.") in linux-next. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
