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Author SHA1 Message Date
Rob Herring
bed35c6dfa serdev: add a tty port controller driver
Add a serdev controller driver for tty ports.

The controller is registered with serdev when tty ports are registered
with the TTY core. As the TTY core is built-in only, this has the side
effect of making serdev built-in as well.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Reviewed-By: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Tested-By: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-02-03 10:17:02 +01:00
Rob Herring
cd6484e183 serdev: Introduce new bus for serial attached devices
The serdev bus is designed for devices such as Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS
and NFC connected to UARTs on host processors. Tradionally these have
been handled with tty line disciplines, rfkill, and userspace glue such
as hciattach. This approach has many drawbacks since it doesn't fit
into the Linux driver model. Handling of sideband signals, power control
and firmware loading are the main issues.

This creates a serdev bus with controllers (i.e. host serial ports) and
attached devices. Typically, these are point to point connections, but
some devices have muxing protocols or a h/w mux is conceivable. Any
muxing is not yet supported with the serdev bus.

Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Reviewed-By: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Tested-By: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-02-03 10:17:02 +01:00