Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751645AbbH1Fwq (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Aug 2015 01:52:46 -0400 Received: from mo4-p00-ob.smtp.rzone.de ([81.169.146.220]:61029 "EHLO mo4-p00-ob.smtp.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750750AbbH1Fwo convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Aug 2015 01:52:44 -0400 X-RZG-AUTH: :JGIXVUS7cutRB/49FwqZ7WcKdUCnXG6JabqYXm2VqquT70O+ZQ== X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Subject: Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 From: "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" In-Reply-To: <20150812092059.361e09bc@home.neil.brown.name> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:52:41 +0200 Cc: Mark Rutland , One Thousand Gnomes , Peter Hurley , Arnd Bergmann , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Sebastian Reichel , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Rob Herring , Pavel Machek , Grant Likely , Jiri Slaby , Marek Belisko , List for communicating with real GTA04 owners Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: References: <20150511013540.5709.93626.stgit@notabene.brown> <20150812092059.361e09bc@home.neil.brown.name> To: Linus Walleij X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4205 Lines: 102 Hi Linus, Am 12.08.2015 um 01:20 schrieb NeilBrown : > On Fri, 7 Aug 2015 15:01:47 +0200 Linus Walleij > wrote: > >> Hi Neil, >> >> first, this is a *VERY* interesting and much needed patch series, >> I intend to look closer at it, and if possible test it with some >> (heh) board file device. Would be happy of you put me on CC for these. >> >> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:56 AM, NeilBrown wrote: >> >>> When a device is connected to a UART via RS-232 (or similar), there >>> is a DTR line that can be used for power management, and other "modem >>> control" lines. >>> >>> On an embedded board, it is very likely that there is no "DTR", and >>> any power management need to be done using some completely separate >>> mechanism. >>> >>> So these "slaves" are really just for devices permanently attached to >>> UARTs without a full "RS-232" (or similar) connection. The driver >>> does all the extra control beyond Tx/Rx. >> >> What is usually happening (and I have seen it in a few places) is that >> the SoC has *one* fully featured RS232 with CTS/RTS and even >> DTS,DCD,RI and other esoterica, which is intended to be connected to a >> host serial port or so, for example if this SoC is to act as a modem >> or a fax machine, or if it is to drive one. >> >> Then they often have a few more UART blocks, usually identical, which >> only have RxD+TxD available, so they are "just" UARTs. >> >> To complicate things further, you may wonder what happened with >> the CTS/RTS (etc) signals from the other blocks. Usually they are there >> in the silicon but just routed to dead ends. >> >> To complicate it even further, usually all these pins are placed under >> pin control multiplexing, so in an actual electronic design, the >> system will mux out CTS/RTS (etc) from the fully featured RS232 >> blocks and only use them as UARTs anyways. >> >> Then there are those who created real simple RxD/TxD-only UARTs >> ("yeah lets dump this RS232 legacy crap" / "yeah yeah") >> and then realized they want to drive modems ("oh crap, it seemed >> like a good idea at the time"). Then they usually take >> two GPIO pins for CTS/RTS and drive them as GPIOs using >> software and you have a cheap 4-line modem line. This is what >> drivers/tty/serial/serial_mctrl_gpio.c is for if you wondered. >> >>> I've tested this set and it seems to work ... except that something >>> is sadly broken with bluetooth support in 4.1-rc1 so I've only really >>> tested the GPS driver. I guess it is time to rebase to -rc3. >> >> You have a hardware taget I see. Which one? > > GTA04 (www.gta04.org - openmoko successor). > > 3 uarts on OMAP3 are wired: one as RS-232 for console, one to bluetooth > half of a wifi/bluetooth module, and one to a GPS. > > For the GPS, I just want to power on/off when the TTY is opened/closed, > but the power-on sequence is non-trivial as both "turn on" and > "turn-off' toggle the same line, so I need to be able to detect current > state. > > For the bluetooth, the power is a (shared) regulator. As well as > power-on when the TTY is opened, I'd like regulator to be turned of > when I "hciconfig down" - even though the TTY is still open. > I did a patch a while ago which hooked in to hci_uart_{open,close} to > make this work, but it isn't a really good patch. > > It would be nice to hide the TTY from user-space in the bluetooth case, > and have the "hciattach" happen in the kernel, but I think hciattach > does extra initialisation... > > NeilBrown we (the developers of the hardware) have proposed an alternative approach to Neil?s implementation - for the same device and solving the same problem (notifying tty open/close and uart activity to the slave device driver), but differently. See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/28/91 Discussion has not yet settled on which approach is better. So your opinion of comparing both is welcome. 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