Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] UART slave device bus

[One Thousand Gnomes]

> I meant "Either some function similar to userspace's poll() is
> needed, ...". Something like uart_dev_wait_for_rx()

You can't really do that - it might never return and then how do you want
to handle timeouts and cleanups

> Alternatively the rx function could be a callback, that
> is called when there is new data.

That's what the existing API gives you as an ldisc, it can't be immediate
in many cases however but must be buffered.

> > I'm assuming the only immediate consumers are in-kernel.  
> 
> Yes, but the driver should be notified about incoming data.

Alan