On 12/18/2012 11:31 PM, Laxman Dewangan wrote: > Add APB DMA requestor and serial aliases for serial controller. > There will be two serial driver i.e. 8250 based simple serial driver > and APB DMA based serial driver for higher baudrate and performace. > > The simple serial driver get enabled with compatible nvidia,tegra20-uart > and APB DMA based driver will get enabled with compatible > nvidia,tegra20-hsuart.
This patch seems to do two things: 1) Add a comment describing how to select the basic or DMA-based driver. I can see why this is useful. 2) Add aliases for the serial ports. I have no idea why this is useful. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
