linux-kernel - Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/3] tty slave device support

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Message-ID: <554B8A14.2080904@hurleysoftware.com>
Date:	Thu, 07 May 2015 11:51:48 -0400
From:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
To:	"Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@...delico.com>
CC:	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	List for communicating with real GTA04 owners 
	<gta04-owner@...delico.com>, NeilBrown <neil@...wn.name>,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
	"grant.likely@...aro.org" <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/3] tty slave device support - version
 3.

On 05/07/2015 11:34 AM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> Am 07.05.2015 um 16:56 schrieb Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>:
>> On 05/07/2015 08:46 AM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:

>> Both devicetree and tty/serial can already represent independent control;
>> what is proposed is a way to express dependent control, and in all cases,
>> that control stems directly from either the UART state itself or via
>> commands sent over that interface.
> 
> Yes. This is why I propose that the tty/uart driver can send an internal notification
> to the device driver. And the device driver can register to be notified by the UART
> that is identified by the phandle of the slave DT entry.

I've not seen any code with your proposal, so that makes it impossible to
compare competing solutions.


>> Any target not requiring UART involvement doesn't (and probably, shouldn't)
>> be expressed as a slave device.
> 
> IMHO it is not obligatory to represent the direction of control by a parent>child
> relation in DT. DT just needs to describe that there is a relation/connection.

Devicetree usage in the linux kernel is for representing the host view, not an
abstract machine. I have yet to see an example of a proposed tty slave where the
host interface is not a UART.

> The driver code already must “know” the direction of notifications.
> 
> BTW, there can even be control in reverse direction in some cases. E.g. the slave
> driver wants to automatically set the baud rate of the uart, i.e. the slave controls
> the uart on /dev/tty side.
> 
> If I have monitored some other discussion right, this is exactly done by a Codec
> driver to tell its mcbsp counterpart about clock rates and data formats it should
> expect. Maybe this is the reason why McBSP use (or are just happy with) the
> phandle approach.

Parameters are not control.

Regards,
Peter Hurley
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