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

[Sebastian Reichel]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:52:56PM +0100, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > There are usb-serial devices, which could benefit from support
> > btw. I would find it really useful, if the Dangerous Prototype's
> > Bus Pirate would expose native /dev/i2c and /dev/spi and it's
> > based on FT232.
> 
> That should just need an ldisc.

Right, since it does not need any extra resources. Probably not the
best example.

> I2C and SPI should at this point be sane for hotplugging as needed
> for an ldisc.

I guess hotplugging support in the downstream kernel frameworks
would be needed anyway with usb-serial being USB based.

> And having an ldisc also has another nice effect. You can plug the bus
> pirate into a remote machine, run an 8bit clean link over a pty/tty pair
> half way around the world and get a local i2c/spi to the remote machine's
> i2c/spi bus pirate ports and devices.

Right.

> It also means that if Bus Pirate 5 changes USB uart nothing breaks.

And it means no auto-support. Which would be fine in case of Bus
Pirate, since its mainly a developer device and some people may
actually prefer the IMHO anoying serial interface.

Let's forget that example.

-- Sebastian

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