Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] serial: core: Move tty and serdev to be children of serial core port device

From: Tony Lindgren
Date: Tue Oct 24 2023 - 08:46:05 EST


* Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> [231024 12:42]:
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 03:29:55PM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [231024 11:52]:
> > > What does this change the sysfs tree to look like?
> >
> > On x86 qemu for the ttys:
> >
> > # find /sys -name tty
> > /sys/class/tty
> > /sys/class/tty/tty
> > /sys/devices/pnp0/00:04/00:04:0/00:04:0.0/tty
> > /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/serial8250:0/serial8250:0.3/tty
> > /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/serial8250:0/serial8250:0.1/tty
> > /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/serial8250:0/serial8250:0.2/tty
> > /sys/devices/virtual/tty
> > /sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty
>
> I believe the question was how serdev device will move it's location
> in the hierarchy.

If used, a serdev device serial0 will appear instead of the tty in
the same location.

Regards,

Tony