Serial: Allow port type to be specified when calling serial8250_register_port.
commit8e23fcc89c8091790903927449f8efb9b4e23960
authorDavid Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Fri, 2 Jan 2009 13:49:54 +0000 (2 13:49 +0000)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 2 Jan 2009 18:19:43 +0000 (2 10:19 -0800)
treea6f60b457be02430a55629729451ba12288554c0
parent7d6a07d123b62bf4fa71867420c23da3ca36c995
Serial: Allow port type to be specified when calling serial8250_register_port.

Add flag value UPF_FIXED_TYPE which specifies that the UART type is
known and should not be probed.  For this case the UARTs properties
are just copied out of the uart_config entry.

This allows us to keep SOC specific 8250 probe code out of 8250.c.  In
this case we know the serial hardware will not be changing as it is on
the same silicon as the CPU, and we can specify it with certainty in
the board/cpu setup code.

The alternative is to load up 8250.c with a bunch of OCTEON specific
special cases in the probing code.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/serial/8250.c
drivers/serial/serial_core.c
include/linux/serial_8250.h
include/linux/serial_core.h