Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] nfc: pn533: add UART phy driver

From: Lars Poeschel
Date: Thu Oct 25 2018 - 09:29:07 EST


On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 11:27:33AM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 10:57:28AM +0200, Lars Poeschel wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 05:00:28PM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
>
> > > > --- a/drivers/nfc/pn533/Kconfig
> > > > +++ b/drivers/nfc/pn533/Kconfig
> > > > @@ -25,3 +25,13 @@ config NFC_PN533_I2C
> > > >
> > > > If you choose to build a module, it'll be called pn533_i2c.
> > > > Say N if unsure.
> > > > +
> > > > +config NFC_PN532_UART
> > > > + tristate "NFC PN532 device support (UART)â
> > >
> > > you are missing the "depends on SERIAL_DEV_BUSâ here.
> >
> > Yes, absolutely right. I missed that. I will post a follow-up.
> >
> > BTW a question:
> > Only enabling SERIAL_DEV_BUS did not suffice for me. I also had to
> > enable SERIAL_DEV_CTRL_TTYPORT, otherwise the probe of the driver was
> > not called. This seems a bit odd to me. This option seems unrelated, but
> > without it, it did not work.
> >
> > Should I better depend on SERIAL_DEV_CTRL_TTYPORT then ?
>
> No, SERIAL_DEV_BUS is the correct (build-time) dependency.
>
> In principle, your driver will work with any serdev-controller
> implementation even if we currently only have one of those in the kernel
> (and SERIAL_DEV_CTRL_TTYPORT therefore default to Y whenever
> SERIAL_DEV_BUS is selected).

Thanks, this makes sense for me now.
I will post a follow-up patchset shortly.

Regards,
Lars