linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] serial: DCC(JTAG) serial and console emulation support

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Date:	Thu, 7 Oct 2010 22:08:52 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Hyok S. Choi" <hyok.choi@...sung.com>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	Jeff Ohlstein <johlstei@...cinc.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@...sung.com>,
	Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>,
	Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>,
	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
	Philippe Langlais <philippe.langlais@...ricsson.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: DCC(JTAG) serial and console emulation support

> > I would agree 100% with this for the driver in question. The tty_port
> > helpers now make it trivial to do so and it'll be small and clean as a
> > result.
> 
> Can you give some example of other drivers which have done this?

The blackfin driver is probably the nicest example for a very simple
device but see also the USB serial drivers (complex example), the SDIO
serial support (shows how to do fancy hotpluggable device stuff with it).

Basically tty_port_open/tty_port_close/tty_port_hangup do all the icky
nasty POSIX open/close/hangup handling and provide you with simple
methods to implement activate/shutdown of a port and carrier detect etc
most of which you don't even need to supply.

You can also skip a lot of other stuff like modem lines - although I can
see why you might want to provide an emulated modem line response for a
console emulation.

Alan
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