> > I think there are two other valuable features provided by serio: > > > > - an existing set of drivers written to the API > > - the implementation of the tty_ldisc > > True, though I'd expect little of the data flow part of it to be reused. Then your design is broken. > - a child of the uart node > - a reg property containing the line number if the parent has multiple > uarts (I'd expect this to rarely be used). That surprises me as for current x86 platforms it would be the norm, except that we use ACPI. > - baudrate and other line configuration (though I would expect the > slave driver to know all this and set it w/o DT. Also, we already have > a way to set baudrate in the parent node at least.) > - other standard device properties for interrupt, gpios, regulators. > > Also to consider is whether muxing of multiple slaves is needed. It's > not anything I've seen come up, but it's not hard to imagine. I think > that can be considered later and shouldn't impact the initial binding > or infrastructure. You can describe the child of the serial device as a mux and the children of the mux as whatever so it comes out fine when you get to that point. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
