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How can you achieve plug and play for a ft2232 based USB serial device
implementing 802.15.4 networking?

The device has a 802.15.4 SOC with a UART attached to a ft2232. With
firmware loaded the only thing it can do is talk the 802.15.4 tty line
discipline, it is not a general purpose serial port.

Right now the device works by plugging it in and it appears as a
generic USB serial device like ttyUSB0. You then run a user space app
which sets the line discipline, holds the port open and attaches it to
the 6lowpan implementation in the networking code. But doing that is
inconvenient and users needs to be trained to do it. Much simpler if
we could just plug the device in and it worked.

We can add a EEPROM to the ft2232 to give it a unique USB ID.  Is it
possible to make a kernel driver that see this ID, sets the line
discipline and wires the serial port directly into the networking
code?

Yes, you can do that.

Is there an existing driver in the kernel that does this?
So far all of the ones I've checked still need a user space app.

Look at the bluetooth drivers, they have their own line dicipline I
think.

Bluetooth drivers use line discipline on UARTs. On USB they have their
own set of Bluetooth descriptors.

CAN over serial has a line discipline but it needs a user space app.

In your driver, just attach the line discipline directly to the tty
device you create.  You will not be using the "normal" usb-serial logic
at all if you do this, but you should be fine, right?

USB serial port is based on the FT2232 so we've been using that driver.

Modifying that driver was my plan for doing this. I was hoping that
there was a more generic way to achieve the same effect.

No, sorry, stick with doing this from userspace, it's a simple one-line
udev rule, right?

It is fairly simple to do from user space. But you have to find and
install the pointless user space app and then get it pointed at the
correct tty.

The udev rule would handle calling izattach automatically.

That app is a hold over from the ancient days. When you killed it the
serial line would drop the line discipline and revert back to a
terminal session.

What you really want is for devices in this class is to not create a
user space tty device at all. They should just make a net-device. But
there is no way to suppress the creation of the user space tty device.
So we get two both devices and the xx-attach app.

The udev rule would run when the device gets attached and would call
izattach without any need for user interaction. The user would never
even need to know what /dev/ttyUSBx ever got assigned to it.

Alan.