Re: [PATCH v14 1/1] tty: serial: Add Nuvoton ma35d1 serial driver support

[Jacky Huang <ychuang570808@gmail.com>]

Dear Greg,


On 2023/6/13 下午 06:28, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 02:53:55AM +0000, Jacky Huang wrote:
>> From: Jacky Huang <ychuang3@nuvoton.com>
>>
>> This adds UART and console driver for Nuvoton ma35d1 Soc.
>> It supports full-duplex communication, FIFO control, and
>> hardware flow control.
> You get a full 72 columns for your changelog :)
>
>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/serial_core.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/serial_core.h
>> @@ -279,4 +279,7 @@
>>   /* Sunplus UART */
>>   #define PORT_SUNPLUS	123
>>   
>> +/* Nuvoton MA35 SoC */
>> +#define PORT_MA35	124
>> +
> Why is this change needed?  What userspace code is going to rely on it?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

Because the serial driver requires a port->type, and almost all serial
drivers defined their port type here. We follow the practice of most serial
drivers here.
If we don't do it this way, we would have to directly assign a value to
port->type. However, such modifications were questioned in the past,
which is why we changed it back to defining the port type in serial_core.h.


Best regards,
Jacky Huang