Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752029Ab3FDJnO (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jun 2013 05:43:14 -0400 Received: from mail-pd0-f180.google.com ([209.85.192.180]:47601 "EHLO mail-pd0-f180.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751299Ab3FDJnM (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jun 2013 05:43:12 -0400 Message-ID: <51ADB6A9.8030006@linaro.org> Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:13:05 +0530 From: Tushar Behera User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130510 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Hilman CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de, patches@linaro.org, kgene.kim@samsung.com, olof@lixom.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: EXYNOS: Consolidate multiple low-level UART port definitions References: <1369888827-9427-1-git-send-email-tushar.behera@linaro.org> <871u8n105e.fsf@linaro.org> In-Reply-To: <871u8n105e.fsf@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1688 Lines: 43 On 05/31/2013 11:50 PM, Kevin Hilman wrote: > Tushar Behera writes: > >> There are two definitions for low-level UART ports for Exynos platform. >> CONFIG_S3C_LOWLEVEL_UART_PORT is used for printing "Uncompressing >> Linux... done, booting the kernel." and CONFIG_S3C_UART for other >> low-level messages. >> >> The assumption for both the uart ports is that they are pre-configured >> in the bootloader. Since they are essentially the same always, it >> would be good to consolidate them to use only one macro, in this case >> 'DEBUG_S3C_UART' would be a better option. >> >> 'DEBUG_S3C_UART' is defined only if DEBUG_LL is enabled. We can safely >> disable this option when DEBUG_LL is not defined and we can boot various >> boards with different UART port settings. Only drawback of this >> approach is that when DEBUG_LL is not defined, we would be missing the >> print "Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel." > > Perfectly acceptable to me (and already the case on OMAP.) > >> Since CONFIG_S3C_LOWLEVEL_UART_PORT is still used by other Samsung >> boards, the consolidation applies only for ARCH_EXYNOS. >> >> Signed-off-by: Tushar Behera > > Acked-by: Kevin Hilman > Thanks Kevin. I have an updated version of this patch updated for all of Samsung platforms.[1] [1] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1723429 -- Tushar Behera -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/