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From:   rishi gupta <gupt21@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 17 Apr 2020 10:44:34 +0530
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] dt-bindings: ttyvs: document serial null modem
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Initially there was no DT support but later it was added as CONFIGFS
is optional.

DT is giving flexibility to use the driver.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 2:08 AM Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 11:56 PM Rishi Gupta <gupt21@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The ttyvs driver creates virtual tty devices. These devices can
> > also be created through device tree. This commit document this.
>
> Device tree is for real h/w devices. You have a configfs interface to
> set these up. I don't think we need both.
>
> Rob