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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mark Jackson <mpfj-list@newflow.co.uk>
Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@gmail.com>,
	"linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, jslaby@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] serial: OMAP: add RS485 support
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:51:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130813185118.GC8909@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <520A1355.1050301@newflow.co.uk>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-13 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-11 13:56 [PATCH v2] OMAP: add RS485 support Mark Jackson
2013-08-12 22:56 ` [PATCH v2] serial: " Greg KH
2013-08-13 10:22   ` Mark Jackson
2013-08-13 10:54     ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2013-08-13 11:07       ` Mark Jackson
2013-08-13 11:14         ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2013-08-13 18:51         ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-08-13 18:50       ` Greg KH
2013-08-13 21:16         ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2013-08-13 18:53     ` Greg KH

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