Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] serial: core: Move tty and serdev to be children of serial core port device
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Oct 24 2023 - 07:52:26 EST
On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 02:36:18PM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> Let's move tty and serdev controller to be children of the serial core port
> device. This way the runtime PM usage count of a child device propagates
> to the serial hardware device.
>
> The tty and serdev devices are associated with a specific serial port of
> a serial hardware controller device, and we now have serial core hierarchy
> of controllers and ports.
>
> The tty device moves happily with just a change of the parent device.
> The serdev device init needs some changes to separate the serial hardware
> controller device from the parent device.
>
What does this change the sysfs tree to look like?
No objection from me, just curious.
thanks,
greg k-h