linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] serial: core: Add LED trigger support

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Date:   Sun, 25 Dec 2016 22:20:38 +0100
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] serial: core: Add LED trigger support

Hi!

> > Could we somehow remedy the lack of knowledge from the core as whether
> > the HW sends/receives characters first before adding support for LED
> > triggers? It would be more generic and future proof to require UART
> > drivers to report to the core when they actually TX/RX, and then at the
> > core level, utilize that knowledge to perform the LED trigger.
> 
> Maybe we could introduce a function to read from the TX FIFO. Having
> open coded this in each and every driver is not nice anyway.

Yes, please.
									Pavel
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