Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2021-02-08

Re: [PATCH 05/18] tty: serial: samsung_tty: add support for Apple UARTs

From: Hector Martin <hidden>
Date: 2021-02-08 18:33:24
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Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

On 08/02/2021 19.34, Marc Zyngier wrote:
On 2021-02-07 09:12, Hector Martin 'marcan' wrote:
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On 06/02/2021 22.15, Marc Zyngier wrote:
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Do you actually need a new port type here? Looking at the driver
itself, it is mainly used to work out the IRQ model. Maybe introducing
a new irq_type field in the port structure would be better than
exposing this to userspace (which should see something that is exactly
the same as a S3C UART).
Well... every S3C variant already has its own port type here.

#define PORT_S3C2410    55
#define PORT_S3C2440    61
#define PORT_S3C2400    67
#define PORT_S3C2412    73
#define PORT_S3C6400    84

If we don't introduce a new one, which one should we pretend to be? :)
Pick one! :D
*queries /dev/urandom* :-)
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I agree that it might make sense to merge all of these into one,
though; I don't know what the original reason for splitting them out
is. But now that they're part of the userspace API, this might not be
a good idea. Though, unsurprisingly, some googling suggests there are
zero users of these defines in userspace.
I don't think we can do that, but I don't think we should keep adding
to this unless there is a very good reason. Greg would know, I expect.
Greg, what do you think? Add more PORT_ UART types for Samsung variants, 
or overload one of the existing ones and deal with it in the driver?

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Hector Martin (marcan@marcan.st)
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