Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Add support for MaxLinear/Exar USB to serial converters
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Date: Fri Jun 05 2020 - 08:40:27 EST
Em Fri, 1 May 2020 00:19:22 +0530
mani@xxxxxxxxxx escreveu:
> From: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hello,
>
> This series adds support for MaxLinear/Exar USB to serial converters.
> This driver only supports XR21V141X series but it can easily be extended
> to other series in future.
>
> This driver is inspired from the initial one submitted by Patong Yang:
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10543261/
>
> While the initial driver was a custom tty USB driver exposing whole
> new serial interface ttyXRUSBn, this version is completely based on USB
> serial core thus exposing the interfaces as ttyUSBn. This will avoid
> the overhead of exposing a new USB serial interface which the userspace
> tools are unaware of.
>
> This series has been tested with Hikey970 board hosting XR21V141X chip.
I applied this series on the top of Kernel 5.7 (x86_64), and I'm
using it to access the Hikey970 console.
Seems to be working fine. So, feel free to add:
Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks,
Mauro