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From: Jon Ringle <jon@ringle.org>
To: Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@mail.ru>
Cc: jon@ringle.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, jslaby@suse.cz,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	Jon Ringle <jringle@gridpoint.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: WIP: sc16is7xx [v0.4]
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:50:12 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1403100744230.23103@jringle-ubuntu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1394434945.519725450@f256.i.mail.ru>

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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?

Any thoughts as to the latency issue I report?

Thanks.

Regards,
Jon

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-10 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-10  6:26 jon
2014-03-10  7:02 ` Alexander Shiyan
2014-03-10 11:50   ` Jon Ringle [this message]
2014-03-10 14:20     ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-03-10 16:14     ` Alexander Shiyan
2014-03-11 18:20       ` Jon Ringle
2014-03-11 18:44         ` Jon Ringle
2014-03-10 14:17 ` One Thousand Gnomes

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