Re: [PATCH v2 18/24] serdev: ttydev: Serdev driver that creates an standard TTY port

[Rob Herring]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 5:52 AM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
<ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Standard TTY port that can be loaded/unloaded via serdev sysfs. This
> serdev driver can only be used by serdev controllers that are compatible
> with ttyport.

I'm hesitant to expose a tty device on top of serdev to userspace that
we then have to support forever unless that's the only way tty devices
(for serial ports) are created.

I did a similar patch which just registered both serdev and a tty
allowing them to coexist. It suffered from warnings about open counts
though and felt hacky.

Rob