Re: [PATCH] SIIG 8-port serial boards support

[Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>]

On 034, 02 03, 2006 at 09:24:36 +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 12:13:08PM +0300, Andrey Panin wrote:
> > On 033, 02 02, 2006 at 08:17:35 +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > > As I've said many a time, we need a generic way to set different hand-
> > > shaking modes.  I've suggested using some spare bits in termios in the
> > > past, but nothing ever came of that - folk lose interest at that point.

No wonder they do. Extra bits are not a problem, but for 8250.c we need some
way to glue subdrivers with serial8250_set_termios(). Callback in uart_port
structure ?

> > IMHO there is no need to userspace visible changes to support RS485 on
> > these cards, because some of them are RS485 only and some have jumpers
> > for individual ports.  There is nothing that userspace can configure.
> > We only need to set two bits in ACR according to card type and jumper
> > settings and UART will drive RS485 transiever transparently.
> 
> In this particular case you may be right, but I'm looking at the bigger
> picture, where plain 16550's may be used for RS485.

Common way to use plain 16550 for RS485 is to wire transiever to the RTS
and force userspace to use RTS/CTS flow control. I doubt there are many 
other sane way to do it.

> There are drivers which want to implement their own private ioctl to
> enable RS485 mode.  What I'm saying is that we should have one solution,
> not multiple solutions to this problem. When we have such a solution,
> your RS485 card will be able to fit into that model.

But it will need a way to pass ACR value anyway :)

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