Re: [PATCH v7 3/3] serial: imx: get rid of imx_uart_rts_auto()

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On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 12:03:07PM +0300, Sergey Organov wrote:
> Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 09:52:41PM +0300, Sergey Organov wrote:
> >> Called in only one place, for RS232, it only obscures things, as it
> >> doesn't go well with 2 similar named functions,
> >> imx_uart_rts_inactive() and imx_uart_rts_active(), that both are
> >> RS485-specific.
> >
> > I don't share the critic. IMHO the name is fine. imx_uart_rts_inactive
> > sets rts to its inactive level,
> > imx_uart_rts_active() to its active level
> 
> Not exactly, in fact both do more than that, in a similar manner.

They both handle mctrl-gpio, the autorts stuff isn't available for that,
so we could fix that by letting rts-auto set the RTS gpio to active.

> > imx_uart_rts_auto() lets the output drive automatically by the
> > receiver.
> 
> And this one was different and it was rather confusing when I've tried
> to grok the logic of the driver.
> 
> > The name started to be a bit wrong in patch 1 of the series however.
> 
> The function was different from first two even before the patch, as it
> does not do any of those additional things the first two do.
> 
> > And I still object removing this function because with the semantic
> > this function got in patch 1 it is suiteable to be used in
> > imx_uart_set_mctrl().
> 
> It is not, as it does require change to be used there, as we've already
> seen, and then it becomes very different function from what it was at
> the beginning.
> 
> Even then, the end result I've shown you when attempting to somehow preserve
> some re-incarnation of this function still seems more cumbersome to me
> than the end result of these patches.
> 
> That said, this a matter of taste and style, not correctness, and could
> be changed as a follow-up, not to risk breaking already tested patch
> series.

*shrug* I stop caring here.

Best regards
Uwe

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