On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 02:47:26PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Some Renesas SCIF UARTs have dedicated lines for RTS/CTS hardware flow
> control. Whether these lines exist depends on SoC and UART instance
> inside the SoC. Whether these lines can be used for hardware flow
> control depends on board wiring.
>
> Amend the DT bindings with an optional property to indicate that RTS/CTS
> hardware flow control lines exist, and can be used as such.
>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: devicetree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> This has been mimicked after the "fsl,uart-has-rtscts" and
> "sirf,uart-has-rtscts" properties.
>
> However, as this is fairly generic, perhaps it should just be named
> "uart-has-rtscts" instead?
Yes. And there are some other variations of properties to enable
flow-control.
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/renesas,sci-serial.txt | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/renesas,sci-serial.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/renesas,sci-serial.txt
> index f8d7b36742967163..8de177c187536c68 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/renesas,sci-serial.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/renesas,sci-serial.txt
> @@ -79,6 +79,11 @@ Optional properties:
> - {cts,dsr,dcd,rng,rts,dtr,out1,out2}-gpios: Must contain a GPIO specifier,
> referring to the GPIO pin to be used as the UART's CTS, DSR, DCD, RNG, RTS,
> DTR, OUT1, or OUT2 line.
> + - renesas,uart-has-rtscts: The presence of this property indicates that the
> + UART has dedicated lines for RTS/CTS hardware flow control, and that
> + they are available for use (wired and enabled by pinmux configuration).
> + Note that this property is mutually-exclusive with "cts-gpios" and
> + "rts-gpios" above.
>
> Example:
> aliases {
> --
> 1.9.1
>
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