Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] serial: core: only get RS485 termination GPIO if supported

[Ilpo Järvinen]

On Sun, 3 Jul 2022, Lino Sanfilippo wrote:

> From: Lino Sanfilippo <l.sanfilippo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In uart_get_rs485_mode() only try to get a termination GPIO if RS485 bus
> termination is supported by the driver. This prevents from allocating
> and holding a GPIO descriptor for the drivers lifetimg that will never be
> used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo <l.sanfilippo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> NOTE: 
> This patch follows the design decision that "rs485_supported" is
> set by the driver at initialization and cannot be modified
> afterwards. However the better approach would be to let the serial
> core modify the termination GPIO support setting based on the
> existence of a termination GPIO. If "rs485_supported" is not a 
> read-only value any more in future the logic implemented in this
> patch should be adjusted accordingly.
> 
>  drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
> index 85ef7ef00b82..3768663dfa4d 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
> @@ -3404,6 +3404,16 @@ int uart_get_rs485_mode(struct uart_port *port)
>  	 */
>  	port->rs485_term_gpio = devm_gpiod_get_optional(dev, "rs485-term",
>  							GPIOD_OUT_LOW);
> +
> +	if (port->rs485_term_gpio &&
> +	    !(port->rs485_supported->flags & SER_RS485_TERMINATE_BUS)) {
> +		dev_warn(port->dev,
> +			"%s (%d): RS485 termination gpio not supported by driver\n",
> +			port->name, port->line);
> +		devm_gpiod_put(dev, port->rs485_term_gpio);
> +		port->rs485_term_gpio = NULL;
> +	}
> +
>  	if (IS_ERR(port->rs485_term_gpio)) {
>  		ret = PTR_ERR(port->rs485_term_gpio);
>  		port->rs485_term_gpio = NULL;

I sent a series to embed supported_rs485 to uart_port and manage 
SER_RS485_TERMINATE_BUS properly so I think this won't be necessary 
with that?


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 i.