On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 09:38:06PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote: > Hello, > > This series adds support for MaxLinear/Exar USB to serial converters. > This driver only supports XR21V141X series but it can easily be extended > to other series in future. > > This driver is inspired from the initial one submitted by Patong Yang: > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10543261/ > > While the initial driver was a custom tty USB driver exposing whole > new serial interface ttyXRUSBn, this version is completely based on USB > serial core thus exposing the interfaces as ttyUSBn. This will avoid > the overhead of exposing a new USB serial interface which the userspace > tools are unaware of. > > This series has been tested with Hikey970 board hosting XR21V141X chip. > Gentle ping on this series! Thanks, Mani > Thanks, > Mani > > Changes in v4: > > * Multiple improvements based on Johan's review. Noticeable ones are: > - Now the driver claims both control and data interfaces but only registers > tty device for data interface. > - GPIO pin status is now shared between the console and gpiolib > implementations. This is done to avoid changing the lines spuriously. > - A separate port_open flag is added to reject GPIO requests while the tty > port is open. > - Removed padding PID to gpio device. > * Added Greg and Mauro's review and tested tags. > * Included a patch from Mauro to avoid the CDC-ACM driver to claim this device > when this driver is built. > > Changes in v3: > > * Dropped the check for PID and also the reg_width property. > > Changes in v2: > > * Dropped the code related to handling variable register size. It's all u8 now. > * Dropped the header file and moved the contents to driver itself. > * Added Linus's reviewed-by tag for gpiochip patch. > * Added PID to gpiochip label > * Dropped gpiochip for interface 0 > > Manivannan Sadhasivam (2): > usb: serial: Add MaxLinear/Exar USB to Serial driver > usb: serial: xr_serial: Add gpiochip support > > Mauro Carvalho Chehab (1): > usb: cdc-acm: Ignore Exar XR21V141X when serial driver is built > > drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c | 6 + > drivers/usb/serial/Kconfig | 9 + > drivers/usb/serial/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/usb/serial/xr_serial.c | 857 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 4 files changed, 873 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 drivers/usb/serial/xr_serial.c > > -- > 2.17.1 >
