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SubjectRe: [PATCH] RFC: WIP: sc16is7xx [v0.4]
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:50:12 -0400 (EDT)
Jon Ringle <jon@ringle.org> wrote:

>
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2014, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
>
> > Понедельник, 10 марта 2014, 2:26 -04:00 от jon@ringle.org:
> > > From: Jon Ringle <jringle@gridpoint.com>
> > ...
> > > +config SERIAL_SC16IS7XX
> > > + tristate "SC16IS7xx RS485 serial support"
> > > + select SERIAL_CORE
> > > + default n
> > > + help
> > > + This selects support for SC16IS7xx for use as a RS485 serial port
> >
> > Documentation says:
> > The SC16IS740/750/760 is a slave I²C-bus/SPI interface to a single-channel
> > high performance UART.
> > ...
> > The SC16IS740/750/760 also provides additional advanced features such
> > as auto hardware and software flow control, automatic RS-485 support...
> >
> > So why do you position this chip as RS485 only? Automatic direction for
> > RS485 is just a feature as an addition for standart UART.
>
> You're right. This is just how we are using the chip in our board. Would a
> configuration flag in platform_data make sense to use the auto rs485
> direction?

We have interfaces for RS485 runtime configuration so it could be
extended to set a lot of parameters that way, but I think for now it
might not be a bad idea to support rs485 auto direction in/out/off in the
platform data.

Alan
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