Re: [PATCH v8 1/2] Serial: silabs si4455 serial driver

[József Horváth]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 11:28:08AM +0100, 'Greg Kroah-Hartman' wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 10:18:33AM +0000, Jozsef Horvath wrote:
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/serial_core.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/serial_core.h
> > @@ -279,4 +279,7 @@
> >  /* Freescale LINFlexD UART */
> >  #define PORT_LINFLEXUART	122
> >  
> > +/* Silicon Labs SI4455 */
> > +#define PORT_SI4455     123
> 
> What userspace tool is going to need this value?

The PORT_SI4455 is defined for using as port type value in struct uart_port.
I checked other serial drivers under drivers/tty/serial and the port types
used by serial drivers are defined in two places:

include/uapi/linux/serial_core.h
include/uapi/linux/serial.h

The port type is required by serial_core, and its value goes back to
user space with TIOCGSERIAL ioctl call.

I can't set port type value to 0(PORT_UNKNOWN).
I think my drivers source is not the best place to defining PORT_SI4455,
 but I can't find better place then include/uapi/linux/serial_core.h

Could you please help me where is the correct location for this definition?


> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Üdvözlettel / Best regards:
József Horváth