serdev Kconfig in v4.11

serdev Kconfig in v4.11

[Pavel Machek]

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Hi!

menuconfig SERIAL_DEV_BUS
        tristate "Serial device bus"
	help
	         Core support for devices connected via a         serial port.

This is pretty misleading, it would be nice to mention that this is
mostly for embedded devices, and perhaps mention "say N if you don't know".

config SERIAL_DEV_CTRL_TTYPORT
        bool "Serial device TTY port controller"

I have no idea what this is, please provide some kind of help here.

									Pavel
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Re: serdev Kconfig in v4.11

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 12:55:26PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> menuconfig SERIAL_DEV_BUS
>         tristate "Serial device bus"
> 	help
> 	         Core support for devices connected via a         serial port.
> 
> This is pretty misleading, it would be nice to mention that this is
> mostly for embedded devices, and perhaps mention "say N if you don't know".

It's not just for embedded devices, just wait, it will get used
everywhere :)

> config SERIAL_DEV_CTRL_TTYPORT
>         bool "Serial device TTY port controller"
> 
> I have no idea what this is, please provide some kind of help here.

Patches welcome :)

Seriously, just say N for now, you will be fine.  Rob, care to update
the Kconfig help a bit?

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: serdev Kconfig in v4.11

[Pavel Machek]

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On Tue 2017-02-28 13:30:37, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 12:55:26PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > menuconfig SERIAL_DEV_BUS
> >         tristate "Serial device bus"
> > 	help
> > 	         Core support for devices connected via a         serial port.
> > 
> > This is pretty misleading, it would be nice to mention that this is
> > mostly for embedded devices, and perhaps mention "say N if you don't know".
> 
> It's not just for embedded devices, just wait, it will get used
> everywhere :)

Yeah, well. It is "support for automatically attaching devices
attached over serial port". You can support them just fine without
serdev, but you'll have to do irattach/hciattach/whatever attach
manually...

> > config SERIAL_DEV_CTRL_TTYPORT
> >         bool "Serial device TTY port controller"
> > 
> > I have no idea what this is, please provide some kind of help here.
> 
> Patches welcome :)
> 
> Seriously, just say N for now, you will be fine.  Rob, care to update
> the Kconfig help a bit?

Thanks,
									Pavel

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