Re: [PATCH v10 1/1] serial: core: Start managing serial controllers to enable runtime PM

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>]

On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 02:03:35PM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> We want to enable runtime PM for serial port device drivers in a generic
> way. To do this, we want to have the serial core layer manage the
> registered physical serial controller devices.
> 
> To do this, let's set up a struct bus and struct device for the serial
> core controller as suggested by Greg and Jiri. The serial core controller
> devices are children of the physical serial port device. The serial core
> controller device is needed to support multiple different kind of ports
> connected to single physical serial port device.
> 
> Let's also set up a struct device for the serial core port. The serial
> core port instances are children of the serial core controller device.
> 
> With the serial core port device we can now flush pending TX on the
> runtime PM resume as suggested by Johan.

Sorry, I'm on vacation. But just brief comments below.
In general looks good to me.

...

> -obj-$(CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE) += serial_core.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE) += serial_base.o
> +serial_base-objs := serial_core.o serial_base_bus.o serial_ctrl.o serial_port.o

'objs' is for user space tools, kernel should use 'y'

...

> +static DEFINE_RUNTIME_DEV_PM_OPS(serial_port_pm, NULL,
> +				 serial_port_runtime_resume, NULL);

Maybe

static DEFINE_RUNTIME_DEV_PM_OPS(serial_port_pm,
				 NULL, serial_port_runtime_resume, NULL);

for better logical split?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko