Subject: [PATCH v13 5/5] uart: pl011: Add support to ZTE ZX296702 uart

From: [email-masked] (Peter Hurley)
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 09:31:13 -0400

On 10/25/2015 09:27 PM, Jun Nie wrote:
> 2015-10-24 11:32 GMT+08:00 Timur Tabi <[email-masked]>:
>> Jun Nie wrote:
>>>
>>> I am OK to add a new driver for ZTE UART if no other's objection
>>> though I do not agree you. Without this last patch, other patches are
>>> just for minor refactor for register access.
>>
>>
>> In that case, my vote is to drop the whole patchset.  Just copy/paste the
>> amba-pl011 driver and make whatever changes you need.  That sort of thing
>> happens all the time.
> 
> Greg, Peter & Russell,
> 
> What's your opinion on this separate UART driver suggestion?

That's crazy; fork the driver simply because the register i/o addresses
are different? No.

On the contrary, this patchset directly triggered important improvements to
both this driver and the ARM arch.

Regards,
Peter Hurley