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Re: [PATCH 0/2] serial: 8250: add support for MediaTek BTIF controller

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On Thu, 2017-08-03 at 01:05 +0800, sean.wang@mediatek.com wrote:
> From: Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>
> 
> This patchset introduces the support for MediaTek BTIF controller.
> 
> MediaTek BTIF controller is the serial interface similar to UART but
> it
> works only as the digital device which is mainly used to communicate
> with
> the connectivity module also called CONNSYS inside the SoC which could
> be
> mostly found on those MediaTek SoCs with Bluetooth feature.
> 
> And the controller is made as being compatible with the 8250 register
> layout so it tends to be integrated with existing 8250 core driver and
> have no requirement for the modem configuration additionally such as
> the
> baud rate calculation and assignment.


Why it requires a separate driver?

8250_of is for DT enabled drivers.

> 
> Sean Wang (2):
>   dt-bindings: serial: Add MediaTek BTIF controller bindings
>   tty: serial: 8250: Add MediaTek BTIF controller on MT7622 and MT7623
>     SoC
> 
>  .../devicetree/bindings/serial/mtk-btif.txt        |  26 +++
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_btif.c                | 224
> +++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig                    |   9 +
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/Makefile                   |   1 +
>  4 files changed, 260 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/mtk-
> btif.txt
>  create mode 100644 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_btif.c
> 

-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy

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[PATCH 0/2] serial: 8250: add support for MediaTek BTIF controller <sean.wang@mediatek.com> - 2017-08-02 19:10 +0200
  [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: serial: Add MediaTek BTIF controller bindings <sean.wang@mediatek.com> - 2017-08-02 19:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: serial: Add MediaTek BTIF controller  bindings Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2017-08-10 18:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: serial: Add MediaTek BTIF controller  bindings Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com> - 2017-08-11 05:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: serial: Add MediaTek BTIF controller bindings Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2017-08-11 16:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/2] serial: 8250: add support for MediaTek BTIF  controller Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> - 2017-08-02 19:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/2] serial: 8250: add support for MediaTek BTIF  controller Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com> - 2017-08-02 19:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/2] serial: 8250: add support for MediaTek BTIF  controller Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> - 2017-08-02 20:10 +0200

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