Hi Rob, On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 10:26:26AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > Here goes another attempt at a serial device bus (aka uart slaves, tty > slaves, etc.). > > After some discussions with Dmitry at LPC, I decided to move away from > extending serio and moved back to making a new bus type instead. He didn't > think using serio was a good fit, and serio has a number of peculiarities > in regards to sysfs and it's driver model. I don't think we want to inherit > those for serial slave devices. > > This version sits on top of tty_port rather than uart_port as Alan > requested. Once I created a struct tty rather than moving everything > needed to tty_port, it became a lot easier and less invasive to the tty > core code. > > I have hacked up versions of the BT ldisc and TI ST drivers moved over to > use the serdev bus. I have BT working on the HiKey board which has TI BT. > With the serdev bus support, it eliminates the need for the TI userspace > UIM daemon. > > This series and the mentioned drivers can be found here[1]. > > Rob After adding kernel docs in patch 1, the DT binding change and mine and Andy's comments in patch 7 the series is "Reviewed-By: Sebastian Reichel <sre@xxxxxxxxxx>" -- Sebastian
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