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Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4

From Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4
Date 2016-01-22 18:00 +0100
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On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu@tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
> On 20 January 2016 at 19:03, H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com> wrote:
>>
>> Am 20.01.2016 um 18:46 schrieb One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
>>
>>>> The problem is that *I* have no control over user space. But I also don't want
>>>> to say to my users "that is not my problem - get it solved yourself". This does
>>>> not help them.
>>>
>>> Stuffing things into the kernel because the user space of a given
>>> platform can't get itself organised isn't helpful to the other billion
>>> plus Linux devices out there.
>>
>> The assumption that there is  "the" user space of a given platform is wrong.
>
> I'm a bit surprised at the arguments being exchanged here regarding
> why the kernel may or may not deal with the detail that a (say) BT
> chip is behind a uart.
>
> I would have expected that the main (and IMO sufficient) reason why
> the kernel should do it is because the particular bus used to connect
> a BT chip to the CPU is a hw detail that a kernel that does its job
> should keep to itself. Same as userspace not needing to care if a BT
> chip is behind SDIO or USB, why does it have to tell the kernel behind
> which UART a BT chip is sitting?

Thanks for writing exactly what I had not gotten around to writing.
You are exactly right. While historically UART devices where not
probe-able like SDIO (in theory) and USB are and maybe that was a
reason to handle in userspace, we do have the technology to describe
the UART connections now.

Adding Marcel who has also previously commented on the reasons why
this belongs in the kernel [1].

Rob

[1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2015-August/002212.html

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Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-01-15 12:10 +0100
  Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-01-15 16:10 +0100
    Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 Andrey Vostrikov <andrey.vostrikov@cogentembedded.com> - 2016-01-15 16:50 +0100
      Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-01-15 17:10 +0100
        Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> - 2016-01-15 18:20 +0100
          Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-01-15 18:40 +0100
            Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> - 2016-01-15 18:50 +0100
              Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-01-15 19:00 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> - 2016-01-15 20:30 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-01-15 22:30 +0100
          Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com> - 2016-01-15 23:50 +0100
            Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 Vostrikov Andrey <andrey.vostrikov@cogentembedded.com> - 2016-01-16 08:40 +0100
              Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-01-17 00:40 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-01-17 10:00 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-01-17 15:30 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-01-17 19:00 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-01-17 20:40 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-01-18 09:20 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 Andrey Vostrikov <andrey.vostrikov@cogentembedded.com> - 2016-01-18 10:00 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-01-18 13:00 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-01-18 12:30 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-01-18 22:00 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-01-18 23:10 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-01-18 23:40 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-01-19 15:30 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-01-20 18:40 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-01-20 17:20 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-01-20 18:50 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-01-20 19:10 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu@tomeuvizoso.net> - 2016-01-22 17:00 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 18:00 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-01-22 21:20 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info> - 2016-01-23 08:50 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-01-23 13:20 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-01-23 18:30 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-01-23 23:10 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-01-24 18:20 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-01-25 11:40 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info> - 2016-01-19 07:40 +0100
              Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> - 2016-01-20 20:40 +0100
                Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 Vostrikov Andrey <andrey.vostrikov@cogentembedded.com> - 2016-01-20 21:10 +0100
    Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-01-15 17:20 +0100
      Re: [Gta04-owner] [PATCH 0/4] UART slave device support - version 4 "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-01-15 20:20 +0100

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