Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:27:19 +0100 | From | Johan Hovold <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] USB: serial: option: set driver_info for SIM5218 and compatibles |
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 12:25:53PM +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote: > Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> writes: > > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 10:54:00AM +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote: > >> Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> writes: > > > >> >> Regardless, setting the NCTRL flag should be harmless. > >> > > >> > Well, there are devices that depend on getting these requests, at least > >> > for the QMI interface. But we can always revert if anyone complains. > >> > >> The QMI interface doesn't even pretend to be a uart. The other ones do, > >> but there isn't actually any real uart behind them. For instance, it > >> doesn't matter what baud rate one sets. > > > > Sure, but some devices still require "DTR" to be set for the QMI > > interface, so there not being any real uart is no guarantee that there > > is no firmware that expects these calls. > > Now I'm thoroughly confused. The QMI interface has a completely > separate driver that creates a network device (if I'm reading the code > correctly).
I was just giving an example of firmware sometimes doing unexpected things.
Johan
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