Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] serial: exar: Add support for IOT2040 device

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Mon May 22 2017 - 11:46:37 EST


On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This implements the setup of RS232 and the switch-over to RS485 or RS422
> for the Siemens IOT2040. That uses an EXAR XR17V352 with external logic
> to switch between the different modes. The external logic is controlled
> via MPIO pins of the EXAR controller.
>
> Only pin 10 can be exported as GPIO on the IOT2040. It is connected to
> an LED.
>
> As the XR17V352 used on the IOT2040 is not equipped with an external
> EEPROM, it cannot present itself as IOT2040-variant via subvendor/
> subdevice IDs. Thus, we have to check via DMI for the target platform.
>
> Co-developed with Sascha Weisenberger.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Weisenberger <sascha.weisenberger@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Will this thing collide with your fixups so that Greg should take all
exar patches or can this be applied to the serial tree orthogonally?

Yours,
Linus Walleij