Re: [PATCH 0/3] USB-Serial serdev support

Johan Hovold
2024-09-09T12:03:06Z

On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 04:08:47PM +0200, Marco Felsch wrote:
> this patchset is based on Johan's patches [1] but dropped the need of
> the special 'serial' of-node [2].

That's great that you found and referenced my proof-of-concept patches,
but it doesn't seem like you tried to understand why this hasn't been
merged yet.

First, as the commit message you refer to below explain, we need some
way to describe multiport controllers. Just dropping the 'serial' node
does not make that issue go away.

Second, and more importantly, you do not address the main obstacle for
enabling serdev for USB serial which is that the serdev cannot handle
hotplugging.

> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/johan/usb-serial.git/log/?h=usb-serial-of
> [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/johan/usb-serial.git/commit/?h=usb-serial-of&id=b19239022c92567a6a9ed40e8522e84972b0997f

Johan