Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Dec 2014 12:50:20 +0000 | From | One Thousand Gnomes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] misc: add a driver to power on/off UART attached devices. |
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On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 11:09:21 +1100 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
> If a platform has a particular device permanently attached to a UART, > there may be out-of-band signaling necessary to power the device > on and off. > > This drive controls that signalling for a number of different devices. > It can > - enable/disable a regulator > - toggle a GPIO > - register an 'rfkill' which can for the device to be off. > > When the rfkill is absent of unblocked, the device will be on when the > associated tty device is open, and closed otherwise. >
Looks sound to me. Would drivers/tty/slave/.. be a better place for these to collect up than "misc" ?
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