Re: [RFC] tty/serial/8250: use mctrl_gpio helpers

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On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/11/2016 08:19 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>> Hello Yegor,
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 05:06:30PM +0100, Yegor Yefremov wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 8:55 PM, Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On 03/10/2016 08:36 AM, Peter Hurley wrote:
>>>>> Rather, transform
>>>>>
>>>>>       serial_out(port, UART_MCR, val);
>>>>>       serial_port_out(up, UART_MCR, val);
>>>>>
>>>>> to
>>>>>
>>>>>       serial8250_out_MCR(up, val);
>>>>>
>>>>> and add the gpio setting to that.
>>>>> Do the transform first in a prequel patch; then add gpio to that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Similarly for serial_in(port, UART_MCR)
>>>
>>> To implement serial8250_in_MCR() we will need something like
>>> mctrl_gpio_get_mcr(), because mctrl_gpio_get() returns only GPIO
>>> values in input mode. Peter, Uwe what do you think about it?
>
> mctrl_gpio_read() ?

What about renaming the functions to reflect their actual meaning?

mctrl_gpio_get_mcr()
mctrl_gpio_set_mcr()
mctrl_gpio_get_msr()

>> I don't know 8250 good enough to understand the problem here. Is MCR the
>> register to set the (output) handshake lines? Why do you need this?
>
> Save and restore, probably.
>
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