[U-Boot] serial ifdef mess

Graeme Russ graeme.russ at gmail.com
Tue Sep 20 02:41:20 CEST 2011


Hi Mike,

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sunday, September 18, 2011 09:08:35 Graeme Russ wrote:
>> I mean, it irks me to no end that /common/serial.c, /drivers/serial.c and
>> /include/serial.h are such an ugly mess of #ifdef's - I'm working on a new
>> SoC at the moment, and it just plain weird that I have to touch these :(
>
> well, there's two things there.  the init mess which could get fixed in two
> diff ways: part of your larger init cleanup, or turn it into board callbacks
> like most of the other frameworks we have atm.

I don't think the serial mess is related to the init sequence at all (but
I could be wrong)

>
> the second thing is the CONFIG_SERIAL_MULTI hell.  that mess i'd like to gut
> with a dull blade at some point.

Or a sledgehammer!

The big question I suppose is where we are at with the _MULTI interfaces.


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