netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 06/11] dt-bindings: net/can: Add serial (serdev) LIN adapter

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Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 17:16:25 +0100
From: Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>
To: Christoph Fritz <christoph.fritz@...dev.de>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
	Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>,
	Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>,
	Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@...adoo.fr>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
	Benjamin Tissoires <bentiss@...nel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Andreas Lauser <andreas.lauser@...cedes-benz.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Pavel Pisa <pisa@....felk.cvut.cz>, linux-can@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 06/11] dt-bindings: net/can: Add serial (serdev) LIN
 adapter

On Wed, May 08, 2024 at 01:34:34PM +0200, Christoph Fritz wrote:
> On Mon, 2024-05-06 at 20:50 +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On 06/05/2024 18:16, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > > > > > +maintainers:
> > > > > > +  - Christoph Fritz <christoph.fritz@...dev.de>
> > > > > > +
> > > > > > +properties:
> > > > > > +  compatible:
> > > > > > +    const: hexdev,lin-serdev
> > > > > 
> > > > > Maybe I've just missed something on earlier versions that I didn't
> > > > > read, but the name of the device on the website you link is "hexLIN",
> > > > > so why is "lin-serdev" used here instead?
> > > > 
> > > > The USB one is called hexLIN and has it's own HID driver.
> > > > 
> > > > This serial LIN adapter doesn't really have a product name. Currently
> > > > on our website it's generically called 'UART LIN Adapter'.
> > > > 
> > > > This LIN adapter is basically just a LIN transceiver and very generic,
> > > > so that one could solder it to any single-board computer with an uart.
> > > > 
> > > > I think 'lin-serdev' for LIN and serial device fits great, also serdev
> > > > is the name of the used kernel infrastructure (besides the LIN glue
> > > > driver).
> > > > 
> > > > If you still don't like it, I'm open to other names. What about
> > > > "hexlin-uart" or "linser"?
> > >
> > > I dunno, I don't really care about it being called "hexlin,lin-serdev",
> > > all that much, I just found it confusing that the link in the description
> > > sent me to the ""Hello World" in LIN" section of your site. If it had
> > > dropped me off at the "UART LIN adapter" section things woud've been less
> > > confusing.
> 
> Hi Conor and Krzysztof,
> 
> I guess this is a chromium oddity, because browsing to
> 
>  https://hexdev.de/hexlin#hexLINSER
> 
> brings the user to another headline ("hexLIN" not "hexLINSER") as long
> as headline "hexLINSER" can be also displayed.
> 
> When using firefox, the top headline is hexLINSER as expected (at least
> I do).


Yeah, I think its actually chrome that I saw it originally, but that's
probably irrelevant. After your re-org, in Chrome, if the window is small
enough, I still only see the "3 Open Source Tool: hexLIN" stuff, but
that's not an issue with the binding itself, so I won't hold things up
on that basis.

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