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From: avictor.za@gmail.com (Andrew Victor)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC] ARM: at91: remove at91_register_uart_fns and headers
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 23:55:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFumwP38ghv91gwZ55pQeDDD67_t+61pLqBkvX8wzZk5R-3z5w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF8ieYVvWJDEkVheGrCuQ+4Ucx_WV-M3qXia1-Y97vqCmeeETQ@mail.gmail.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-08 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-06 16:02 [PATCH RFC] ARM: at91: remove at91_register_uart_fns and headers Joachim Eastwood
2012-04-06 16:19 ` Joachim Eastwood
2012-04-08 18:09 ` Hans-Christian Egtvedt
2012-04-08 21:21   ` Håvard Skinnemoen
2012-04-08 21:55     ` Andrew Victor [this message]
2012-04-11 11:37       ` Nicolas Ferre
2012-04-11 16:35         ` Joachim Eastwood

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