On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 08:25:35AM +0200, Robert Jarzmik wrote:

Robert Jarzmik [off-list ref] writes:

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From: Sergey Yanovich <redacted>

pxa2xx-uart was a separate uart platform driver. It was declaring
the same device names and numbers as 8250 driver. As a result,
it was impossible to use 8250 driver on PXA SoCs.

Upon closer examination pxa2xx-uart turned out to be a clone of
8250_core driver.

Workaround for Erratum #19 according to Marvel(R) PXA270M Processor
Specification Update (April 19, 2010) is dropped. 8250_core reads
from FIFO immediately after checking DR bit in LSR.

The patch leaves the original SERIAL_PXA driver around. The original
driver is just marked DEPRECATED in Kconfig and C source. When
the original driver is considered safe to remove, no changes
to SERIAL_8250 will be necessary.

Compiling SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE and SERIAL_PXA_CONSOLE even without
SERIAL_8250_PXA breaks console for SERIAL_PXA. For this reasons, the new
and the original drivers are made mutually exclusive.

Signed-off-by: Sergei Ianovich <redacted>
CC: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
CC: James Cameron <redacted>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CC: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
CC: Russell King <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
[rebased on v4.8]
Tested-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>

Greg, can you take that into you tty tree please ?

Please wait until after the 4.9-rc1 merge window is over before worrying
about new patches being applied to my trees...

thanks,

greg k-h