On Wed, 25 Jan 2017, Peter Griffin wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2017, Peter Griffin wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Jan 2017, Lee Jones wrote:
> >
> > > Hardware flow-control capability must be specified at a platform
> > > level in order to inform the ASC driver that the platform is capable
> > > (i.e. are the lines wired up, etc). STiH4{07,10} devices are indeed
> > > capable, so let's provide the property.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > arch/arm/boot/dts/stih407-family.dtsi | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/stih407-family.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/stih407-family.dtsi
> > > index 9789978..7ada8ea 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/stih407-family.dtsi
> > > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/stih407-family.dtsi
> > > @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@
> > > pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_serial0_flowctrl>;
> > > pinctrl-1 = <&pinctrl_serial0>;
> > > clocks = <&clk_s_c0_flexgen CLK_EXT2F_A9>;
> > > -
> > > + st,hw-flow-control;
> >
> > There is a generic serial binding for this already. As this ST property
> > hasn't been used upstream, it seems like it would be worth dropping it
> > and switching to the generic uart-has-rtscts one.
> >
> > See Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/serial.txt
> >
> > - 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).
> > This depends on both the UART hardware and the board wiring.
> > Note that this property is mutually-exclusive with "cts-gpios" and
> > "rts-gpios" above.
>
> Thinking some more this generic binding definition is a bit restrictive,
> particularly the "Note that this property is mutually-exclusive with "cts-gpios"
> and "rts-gpios"" part.
>
> As with this series we will have dynamic on-the-fly changing from hw flow
> control to gpio control for other configs which the HW IP doesn't support.
>
> IMO the uart-has-rtscts definition should be updated to reflect that they can
> be used together in certain circumstances.
Ah, you noticed that too. Yes, will update the doc.
--
Lee Jones
Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead
Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs
Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
