Re: [PATCH v2] Serial: silabs si4455 serial driver

From: 'Greg Kroah-Hartman'
Date: Thu Dec 10 2020 - 14:03:51 EST


On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 05:04:46PM +0000, József Horváth wrote:
> This is a serial port driver for
> Silicon Labs Si4455 Sub-GHz transciver.
>
> Signed-off-by: József Horváth <info@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../bindings/serial/silabs,si4455.yaml | 53 +
> MAINTAINERS | 7 +
> drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig | 8 +
> drivers/tty/serial/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/tty/serial/si4455.c | 1235 +++++++++++++++++
> drivers/tty/serial/si4455_api.h | 56 +

First thing, a single .c file should not need a .h file.

But then I looked at the .h file and see:

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/si4455_api.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2020 József Horváth <info@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> + *
> + */
> +#ifndef SI4455_API_H_
> +#define SI4455_API_H_
> +
> +struct si4455_iocbuff {
> + uint32_t length;
> + uint8_t data[4096];

If you do have an ioctl, use proper data types. These are not the
correct ones (hint, __u32 and __u8).

> +};
> +
> +#define BASE_TTYIOC_PRIVATE 0xA0
> +/* Set EZConfig.
> + * After this ioctl call, the driver restarts the si4455,
> + * then apply the new configuration and patch.
> + */
> +#define SI4455_IOC_SEZC _IOW('T', \
> + BASE_TTYIOC_PRIVATE + 0x01, \
> + struct si4455_iocbuff)

Why does a serial driver have private ioctls? Please no, don't do that.
Implement the basic serial driver first, and then we can talk about
"custom" configurations and the like, using the correct apis.

thanks,

greg k-h