[RFC 2/7] tty: add support for "tty slave" devices

Sebastian Reichel
2016-08-13T03:15:10Z

From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

A "tty slave" is a device connected via UART. It may need a driver to,
for example, power the device on when the tty is opened, and power it
off when the tty is released.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.txt | 4 ++++
drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.txt
index f5561ac7e17e..ecb74730f71b 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/8250.txt
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ Optional properties:
line respectively. It will use specified GPIO instead of the peripheral
function pin for the UART feature. If unsure, don't specify this property.

+Optional child node:
+- a device connected to the uart can be specified as child node with
+ compatible value.
+
Note:
* fsl,ns16550:
------------
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index 734a635e7363..39ff5dcdfd50 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
#include <linux/serial.h>
#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
+#include <linux/of_platform.h>

#include <linux/uaccess.h>

@@ -3317,6 +3318,11 @@ struct device *tty_register_device_attr(struct tty_driver *driver,
retval = device_register(dev);
if (retval)
goto error;
+ if (device && device->of_node)
+ /* Children are platform devices and will be
+ * runtime_pm managed by this tty.
+ */
+ of_platform_populate(device->of_node, NULL, NULL, dev);

return dev;

--
2.8.1