Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] ARM64: dts: meson-axg: uart: drop legacy compatible name from EE UART

From: Jerome Brunet
Date: Mon Jan 08 2018 - 03:56:50 EST


On Sat, 2018-01-06 at 08:10 +0800, Yixun Lan wrote:
> When update the clock info for the UART controller in the EE domain,
> the driver explicitly require 'pclk' in order to work properly.
>
> With current logic of the code, the driver will go for the legacy clock probe
> routine[1] if it find current compatible string match to 'amlogic,meson-uart',
> which result in not requesting the 'pclk' clock, thus break the driver in the end.
>
> [1] drivers/tty/serial/meson_uart.c:685
>
> /* Use legacy way until all platforms switch to new bindings */
> if (of_device_is_compatible(pdev->dev.of_node, "amlogic,meson-uart"))
> ret = meson_uart_probe_clocks_legacy(pdev, port);
> else
> ret = meson_uart_probe_clocks(pdev, port);

I don't think you should add this code snip here. Anybody can look at the driver
code to see that

>
> Acked-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yixun Lan <yixun.lan@xxxxxxxxxxx>