Re: [PATCH RFC v2 net-next 0/8] net: qualcomm: add QCA7000 UART driver

From: Stefan Wahren
Date: Thu Oct 13 2016 - 04:13:26 EST



> Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx> hat am 26. September 2016 um 13:07
> geschrieben:
>
>
> The Qualcomm QCA7000 HomePlug GreenPHY supports two interfaces:
> UART and SPI. This patch series adds the missing support for UART.
>
> This driver based on the Qualcomm code [1], but contains some changes:
> * use random MAC address per default
> * use net_device_stats from device
> * share frame decoding between SPI and UART driver
> * improve error handling
> * reimplement tty_wakeup with work queue (based on slcan)
>
> The patches 1 - 3 are just for clean up and are not related to
> the UART support. Patches 4 - 7 prepare the existing QCA7000
> code for UART support. The last patch contains the new driver.
>
> In order to test the driver a modified slattach in userspace is also
> required. A prepared busybox (includes slattach) can be found here [2].
>
> The code itself has been tested on a Freescale i.MX28 board.
>
> Changes in v2:
> * fix build issue by using netif_trans_update() and dev_trans_start()
>
> [1] - https://github.com/IoE/qca7000
> [2] - https://github.com/lategoodbye/busybox/commits/qca7k_support_1_24
>

Gently ping, since i didn't receive any comment for this version.