Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-uart-backlight: new backlight driver for DELL AIO

[AceLan Kao]

Hi Alex,

2017-10-27 0:10 GMT+08:00 Alan Cox <gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> > +static int __init dell_uart_bl_init(void)
>> > +{
>> > +   ftty = filp_open("/dev/ttyS0", O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY | O_NDELAY, 0);
>>
>
> You have no idea what name is assigned. This doesn't work.
Yes, I did. The port is defined in BIOS as PNP0501 uart port,
so the port will be registered by 8250 PNP driver as ttyS* device.
And consider it's defined in the BIOS, so it should be the first uart
port on the system,
and ttyS0 would be his name.

>
> This isn't the way to do it any more because the 'tty from kernel'
> problem finally got fixed. You can attach it as a serdev directly to the
> kernel.
>
> Take a look at serdev_tty_port_register/serdev_tty_port_unreg
Yes, I'm studying serdev, but currently there are not many examples
for reference,
so I still have no clues how to implement it by serdev.
I'll try using serdev_tty_port_register/serdev_tty_port_unreg to
re-implement the driver.
Thanks.

>
> Alan



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