From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Patong Yang <patong.mxl@gmail.com>
Cc: johan@kernel.org, pyang@maxlinear.com, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Driver for MaxLinear/Exar USB (UART) Serial adapters.
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 09:38:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1522913914.8000.1.camel@suse.com> (raw)
Am Donnerstag, den 05.04.2018, 08:26 +0200 schrieb Greg KH:
> > The USB device can describe itself properly. The SMBIOS function is a
> > requirement from our customer who designed a board using our device where
> > their CPU reads from a specific BIOS location and initializes GPIOs based
> > on the settings. These GPIOs set the mode of the transceiver (LOOPBACK,
> > RS232, RS485, or RS422). Therefore, the driver also reads the same
> > settings from the BIOS, so that it can enable the appropriate mode.
>
> That logic can be done in userspace, no need to do that within the
> kernel, right?
No, not if you want to do full RS485 and similar stuff.
Yet ACM is not a full serial interface. It is for modems.
That raises two questions
a) why not add this to cdc-acm?
b) why custom ioctls? The kernel can do those serial protocols at upper
levels.
Regards
Oliver
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2018-04-05 7:38 Oliver Neukum [this message]
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2018-08-16 10:05 Driver for MaxLinear/Exar USB (UART) Serial Adapters Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-08-16 8:28 Patong Yang
2018-08-16 8:26 Oliver Neukum
2018-08-16 6:34 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-08-16 5:56 Patong Yang
2018-07-26 10:57 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-07-25 7:38 Oliver Neukum
2018-07-24 22:36 Patong Yang
2018-04-06 14:45 Driver for MaxLinear/Exar USB (UART) Serial adapters Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-05 6:26 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-04 8:00 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-04 7:59 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-04 7:38 Oliver Neukum
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