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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Serial slave device bus
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 23:05:28 +0100
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On Fri 2017-01-06 10:26:26, Rob Herring wrote:
> Here goes another attempt at a serial device bus (aka uart slaves, tty
> slaves, etc.).
>=20
> After some discussions with Dmitry at LPC, I decided to move away from
> extending serio and moved back to making a new bus type instead. He didn't
> think using serio was a good fit, and serio has a number of peculiarities
> in regards to sysfs and it's driver model. I don't think we want to inher=
it
> those for serial slave devices.
>=20
> This version sits on top of tty_port rather than uart_port as Alan
> requested. Once I created a struct tty rather than moving everything
> needed to tty_port, it became a lot easier and less invasive to the tty
> core code.
>=20
> I have hacked up versions of the BT ldisc and TI ST drivers moved over to
> use the serdev bus. I have BT working on the HiKey board which has TI BT.
> With the serdev bus support, it eliminates the need for the TI userspace
> UIM daemon.
>=20
> This series and the mentioned drivers can be found here[1].

For what it is worth, series looks good to me.
									Pavel

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