| From | Rob Herring <> | Date | Tue, 29 May 2018 10:38:09 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 07/19] serdev: Allows dynamic creation of devices via sysfs |
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On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 8:10 AM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com> wrote: > Allow creating and deleting devices via sysfs. Devices created will be > matched to serdev drivers via modalias (the string provided by the user) > and deleted via their name. Eg: > > # Create device > root@qt5022:~# echo ttydev > /sys/bus/serial/devices/serial0/new_device > > # Delete device > root@qt5022:~# > echo serial0-0 > /sys/bus/serial/devices/serial0/delete_device
I think the model here should be the kernel provides dummy slave device for each serial port and then you can use bind and unbind to bind to a particular driver.
Rob
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