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Bug in drivers/serial/of_serial.c?

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Alon Ziv Nov. 19, 2009, 1:32 p.m. UTC 
Hi,

On Thursday, November 19, 2009, Arnd wrote:
> In that case, add another entry for the device encoded in the firmware
> itself. The ns16550 entry should be the second one after a more
specific
> one telling which device it is exactly.
> 

Is the following better?

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[PATCH] Xilinx 16550 UART is actually 16550A-compatible

.data = (void *)PORT_16550A, },
 	{ .type = "serial", .compatible = "ns16550",  .data = (void
*)PORT_16550, },
 	{ .type = "serial", .compatible = "ns16750",  .data = (void
*)PORT_16750, },
 	{ .type = "serial", .compatible = "ns16850",  .data = (void
*)PORT_16850, },
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Comments

Arnd Bergmann Nov. 19, 2009, 1:41 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Thursday 19 November 2009, Alon Ziv wrote:
> Is the following better?
> 
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> [PATCH] Xilinx 16550 UART is actually 16550A-compatible
> 

Yes, that's better because it's guaranteed not to break any
other system, while fixing yours.

I'd still add support for the compatible="ns16550a" property
so that we do the right thing for future systems.

	Arnd <><
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/serial/of_serial.c b/drivers/serial/of_serial.c
index 02406ba..40bf8f4 100644
--- a/drivers/serial/of_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/serial/of_serial.c
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@  static int of_platform_serial_remove(struct
of_device *ofdev)
 static struct of_device_id __devinitdata of_platform_serial_table[] = {
 	{ .type = "serial", .compatible = "ns8250",   .data = (void
*)PORT_8250, },
 	{ .type = "serial", .compatible = "ns16450",  .data = (void
*)PORT_16450, },
+	{ .type = "serial", .compatible = "xlnx,xps-uart16550-2.00.b",