On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 12:13 PM, <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree.
> If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
I think we can do without it: there are only three machines that have
dt files with a reg-offset property in their uart:
- nds32 ae3xx was added in 4.17 and requires it there
- powerpc (virtex) has its own early console support and doesn't
rely on earlycon.c
- mips (nexys4ddr) could use it, but has never made use of the
earlycon driver in its DT files. It should now work out of the box
in 4.17
Arnd