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Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus

From Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus
Date 2016-08-23 02:00 +0200
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Hi,

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:54:14PM +0100, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 00:00:17 +0200
> Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon 2016-08-22 22:32:23, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > > > why would we even have it create a /dev/ttyX for these devices in the first place. Lets just not create an uevent for it and lets not create a dev_t for it.  
> > > 
> > > Because if you don't it's a regression. It's not permissible to break
> > > existing userspace.  
> > 
> > Well... it would be good to do the right thing, at least in the places
> > where we can.
> > 
> > Yes, renumbering people's serials is bad, OTOH for new platforms it
> > would be nice not to expose ttyS15 which can only return -EBUSY.
> 
> That would still be a regression. Not everyone even uses the kernel
> bluetooth stack. It would only return EBUSY if you had done an "up"
> on it via the direct bluetooth stack.

So it returns EBUSY when uart-bus is used. Since uart-bus is about
hardwired devices that's basically always.

Also I wonder how relevant your "I want to handle all UART stuff out of
kernel" scenario is for uart-bus, which is about in-kernel UART
drivers.

-- Sebastian

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[RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-08-18 03:20 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-08-18 12:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> - 2016-08-18 12:40 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-08-18 13:00 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-08-18 16:00 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-08-18 15:20 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-08-19 03:50 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-08-19 13:10 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-08-18 12:40 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-08-18 12:50 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-08-18 13:00 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-08-18 13:20 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-08-18 16:50 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-08-18 13:00 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-08-18 13:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-08-18 13:00 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> - 2016-08-18 13:10 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-08-18 13:30 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-08-18 13:50 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> - 2016-08-18 14:00 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-08-18 13:20 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-08-18 13:20 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> - 2016-08-18 13:50 +0200
            Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-08-18 14:20 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> - 2016-08-18 13:50 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-08-18 15:10 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> - 2016-08-18 13:00 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-08-18 13:10 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> - 2016-08-18 13:50 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-08-18 14:10 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-08-18 13:10 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2016-08-18 15:20 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> - 2016-08-19 03:50 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-08-18 16:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-08-19 03:10 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-08-19 03:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-08-19 04:50 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-08-19 13:40 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> - 2016-08-19 17:40 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> - 2016-08-19 03:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-08-19 03:40 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> - 2016-08-19 07:30 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-08-19 09:40 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de> - 2016-08-19 10:00 +0200
            Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-08-19 20:00 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de> - 2016-08-19 22:30 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-08-20 15:40 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-08-21 10:00 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> - 2016-08-22 22:50 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-08-22 23:30 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-08-22 23:50 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> - 2016-08-23 00:50 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-08-23 01:00 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> - 2016-08-23 01:20 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-08-23 09:30 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-08-19 13:10 +0200
            Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-08-19 19:50 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-08-20 15:30 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-08-21 10:00 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-08-21 19:20 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@goldelico.com> - 2016-08-21 20:30 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-08-22 11:20 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> - 2016-08-22 11:40 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-08-19 13:10 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> - 2016-08-19 16:50 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-08-22 14:40 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-08-22 15:50 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-08-22 17:30 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> - 2016-08-22 17:30 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-08-22 18:00 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-08-22 18:50 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-08-22 19:10 +0200
            Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-08-22 19:40 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> - 2016-08-22 23:20 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-08-22 23:40 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-08-23 00:10 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-08-23 01:00 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> - 2016-08-23 02:00 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-08-23 02:20 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> - 2016-08-23 03:00 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-08-24 16:00 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> - 2016-08-24 16:40 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> - 2016-08-23 13:50 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> - 2016-08-23 01:10 +0200
            Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-08-22 19:40 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> - 2016-08-22 22:10 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-08-23 00:10 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> - 2016-08-23 00:20 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-08-22 19:20 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> - 2016-08-22 23:10 +0200
            Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> - 2016-08-23 00:10 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-08-23 01:20 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> - 2016-08-23 01:50 +0200
            Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-08-23 00:20 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2016-08-24 14:30 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-08-23 23:20 +0200

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