From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: nicolas.ferre@atmel.com (Nicolas Ferre) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:37:50 +0200 Subject: [PATCH RFC] ARM: at91: remove at91_register_uart_fns and headers In-Reply-To: References: <1333728149-32711-1-git-send-email-joachim.eastwood@jotron.com> <20120408180906.GA13348@samfundet.no> Message-ID: <4F856D0E.5040802@atmel.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 04/08/2012 11:55 PM, Andrew Victor : > hi, > >> Yeah, as far as I know, nobody ever used this functionality on AVR32. >> In fact, I can't even think of a reason to use it. >> >> But I seem to recall submitting a patch to remove this functionality a >> long time ago, and it was struck down. I don't remember the reason, >> but there's a chance it might still be valid. > > Some of the SAN People / Multenet AT91RM9200 boards needed it.... > We needed to use GPIO pins for some of the modem-control signals - > couldn't use the standard pins since the alternate pin function was > being used. > > Regards, > Andrew Victor Hi Andrew, Well if it is of some interest on your side, I am in favor of keeping this feature. It is not a so big amount of code and seems quite easy to maintain... Thanks a lot to all for your feedback anyway. Cheers, -- Nicolas Ferre