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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] serial: OMAP: add RS485 support
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:51:18 -0700
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On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:07:01PM +0100, Mark Jackson wrote:
> On 13/08/13 11:54, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > 
> > Hi Mark,
> > 
> > I've seen several attempts to add RS485 support to the omap serial
> > driver and it is always nack-ed. There seems to be concerns about
> > controlling the RTS by software when RS485 is not supported by the
> > UART hardware. Please refer to [1] and [2] for more information.
> 
> Hmmmm ... okay, I guess I'll just have to maintain our own code (as
> did the OP in [1]).

I don't want to have that happen, that's just foolish.  I'd rather merge
it so that everyone can benifit, and so you don't have to spend extra
work maintaining this out-of-tree.

thanks,

greg k-h