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From:   Esben Haabendal <esben@haabendal.dk>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] serial: 8250: Add support for using platform_device resources
References: <20190430140416.4707-1-esben@geanix.com>
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        <20190521131131.GA19685@kroah.com>
Date:   Tue, 21 May 2019 16:45:34 +0200
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        of "Tue, 21 May 2019 15:11:31 +0200")
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Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes:

> On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 01:34:26PM +0200, Esben Haabendal wrote:
>> Allow getting memory resource (mapbase or iobase) as well as irq from
>> platform_device resources.
>> 
>> The UPF_DEV_RESOURCES flag must be set for devices where platform_device
>> resources are to be used.  When not set, driver behaves as before.
>
> Nothing actually sets this flag in this patch, so I can't take this as
> you are adding new features that no one uses :(
>
> Where is the driver that sets this?

It sits here.  It is a rather big and clunky mfd driver, not ready for
upstreaming in its current form.  I hope to get around to clean it up.
But it is for a very specific hardware that is really available or
usable for anybody else.  Does it make sense to spend effort on
submitting such a driver?

/Esben