Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus

Marcel Holtmann
2016-08-24T14:30:06Z

Hi Alan,

>> So you mean if I do "hciconfig hci0 down", then the uart-bus should
>> "down" the tty and only on "hciconfig hci0 up" it should "up" the
>> tty? I would expect a uart-bus slave-device takes control of the
>> device ("up" it) on probe. It's hardwired anyway.
>
> Today you can switch stacks at runtime, you can switch between the kernel
> stack and debug tools at runtime. Breaking that is a regression.

actually that is not true. We have HCI User Channel since a long time that gives you raw access to the devices. And also kernel interfaces to do all vendor / debug tasks.

Regards

Marcel