On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 01:06:20AM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > Hello, > > Most of the patches in this series have been sitting in my development tree > for three years now. While rebasing all my development branches I decided it > was time to send them out in case they're considered useful. I've then thrown > a few additional patches in to move the driver further in the right direction > (or at least the direction I consider right). > > The idea behind this series is to move towards removal of the sh-sci platform > data. This won't be possible until SH platforms move to DT (and I won't hold > my breath), but we can get rid of most of the platform data fields already and > cleanup the sh-sci driver at the same time. > > The series already removes the capabilities, port_reg, regshift, dma_slave_tx > and dma_slave_rx fields. We should be able to go further: > > - The flags field is only used by sh5 to set UPF_IOREMAP. It should be > possible to find another way to determine in the driver whether to ioremap > the registers. > > - The sampling_rate field is only used by sh7723 and sh7724 to override the > value hardcoded in the driver, even though the datasheets of those SoCs > don't mention any restriction. This might not be needed and should be > investigated. > > - The scscr REIE bit should be possible to compute in the driver, as it's set > for all SCIF ports except SCIx_SH3_SCIF_REGTYPE, SCIx_SH7705_SCIF_REGTYPE, > and the sh7343 SCIx_SH4_SCIF_REGTYPE. The latter will be trickier to handle. > > - Now that we have support for baud rate generators and externel clocks, the > scscr CKE1 bit should be computed in the driver in all cases. > > - The scscr TOIE bit doesn't seem to follow a clear rule, but given that it's > the last scscr bit to handle I'm sure we'll find something :-) > > - It might make sense to merge the type and regtype fields in a single type. > > Finally, it might be time to drop support for the SH platforms that would get > in the way of sh-sci cleanup.
I've merged patches 1, 2, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 in my tty tree. If I should take any others there as well, please let me know. thanks, greg k-h
