Re: [PATCH tty-next 2/2] serial: 8250: add driver for NI UARTs

[Brenda Streiff <brenda.streiff@ni.com>]

On 3/31/23 06:46, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2023, Brenda Streiff wrote:
> 
>> +static int ni16550_get_regs(struct platform_device *pdev,
>> +			    struct uart_port *port)
>> +{
>> +	struct resource *regs;
>> +
>> +	regs = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_IO, 0);
>> +	if (regs) {
>> +		port->iotype = UPIO_PORT;
>> +		port->iobase = regs->start;
>> +
>> +		return 0;
>> +	}
> 
> Do you need the port io?

Yes; on our x86_64 hardware this UART IP is in logic connected to LPC,
and the registers lie in I/O port space.


>> +	int irq;
>> +	int rs232_property = 0;
>> +	unsigned int prescaler;
>> +	const char *transceiver;
>> +	int txfifosz, rxfifosz;
> 
> Try to follow reverse xmas-tree order.

Is reverse xmas tree also the rule in the tty subsystem? I was aware of
it for netdev but I thought that was a netdev-specific rule (since it
only shows up in maintainer-netdev.rst and not more broadly)