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From: paul.gortmaker@windriver•com (Paul Gortmaker)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: BCMRING: Fix UART declaration and clk dev name mismatch
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 19:00:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120507230016.GA19320@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA84396.7090808@broadcom.com>

[Re: [PATCH] ARM: BCMRING: Fix UART declaration and clk dev name mismatch] On 07/05/2012 (Mon 14:50) Jiandong Zheng wrote:

> On 5/7/2012 2:39 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> >
> >Do things work if you simply do a partial revert of 888073d41 ?
> >
> >Meaning:
> >
> >-static AMBA_APB_DEVICE(uartA, "uartA", 0, MM_ADDR_IO_UARTA, {IRQ_UARTA}, NULL);
> >-static AMBA_APB_DEVICE(uartB, "uartB", 0, MM_ADDR_IO_UARTB, {IRQ_UARTB}, NULL);
> >+static AMBA_APB_DEVICE(uartA, "uarta", 0, MM_ADDR_IO_UARTA, {IRQ_UARTA}, NULL);
> >+static AMBA_APB_DEVICE(uartB, "uartb", 0, MM_ADDR_IO_UARTB, {IRQ_UARTB}, NULL);
> >
> >The original error messages led me to believe it was two errors;
> >i.e. (1) the wrong # of args error, and (2) the "a" vs. "A" error.  But
> >I think Olof was right on his 1st instinct, that it was just the
> >single error, and the a<--->  A thing was a side effect.
> >
> >In which case the above should just work, and it will also keep
> >the naming consistent with what it was before any of these
> >commits.
> Yes.  Either way works. Just in original code, the name uartA and
> the name string "uarta" looks confusing and easy to get it wrong.

Agreed, as it confused me as well.  But I don't want to break any
existing userspace.  So if people expect the name "uarta" and the
name "uartb" then we really should go with that.  But I have no
insight into the use case or userspace.  So I leave that part of
the input up to you.

Thanks,
Paul.

> 
> Thanks,
> JD
> >
> >Paul.
> >--
> >
> 
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-07 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-07 19:34 [PATCH] ARM: BCMRING: Fix UART declaration and clk dev name mismatch Jiandong Zheng
2012-05-07 21:39 ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-05-07 21:50   ` Jiandong Zheng
2012-05-07 23:00     ` Paul Gortmaker [this message]
2012-05-07 23:14       ` Jiandong Zheng
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-05-01 19:44 Jiandong Zheng
2012-05-02 11:48 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2012-05-02 16:22   ` Jiandong Zheng

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