linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] Documentation: rs485: Mention uart_get_rs485

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Date:   Wed, 28 Sep 2022 14:52:02 +0300 (EEST)
From:   Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
cc:     Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-serial <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] Documentation: rs485: Mention
 uart_get_rs485_mode()

On Wed, 28 Sep 2022, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 2:05 PM Ilpo Järvinen
> <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> >     The device tree can also provide RS485 boot time parameters
> > -   [#DT-bindings]_. The driver is in charge of filling this data structure
> > -   from the values given by the device tree.
> > +   [#DT-bindings]_. The serial core fills the struct serial_rs485 from the
> > +   values given by the device tree when driver calls uart_get_rs485_mode().
> 
> the driver
> 
> Feels like this should be before the previous patch and actually have
> a Fixes tag.

I don't feel it would be an appropriate tag for this kind of cases 
where documentation is simply lacking behind what the core code now 
offers.

-- 
 i.