Re: [PATCH 02/19] dt-bindings: serial: rsci: Drop "uart-has-rtscts: false"

From: Conor Dooley

Date: Tue Oct 28 2025 - 15:50:46 EST


On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 07:39:41PM +0000, Biju Das wrote:
> Hi Conor Dooley,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Conor Dooley <conor@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: 28 October 2025 19:28
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/19] dt-bindings: serial: rsci: Drop "uart-has-rtscts: false"
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 03:45:49PM +0000, Biju Das wrote:
> > > Drop "uart-has-rtscts: false" from binding as the IP support hardware
> > > flow control.
> >
> > Why is it being removed, rather than only being required for the existing devices? It's not clear to
> > me that the comment about the IP supporting flow control excludes the integration on these particular
> > devices from somehow having flow control disabled.
>
> It was a mistake previously as the driver does not implement hardware flow control and
> is excluded in device tree.
>
> Actually, the RSCI IP on all SoCs supports hardware flow control.
> If a channel need flow control it can make use of the property uart-has-rtscts;
> That is the reason for removing hardware flow control disabled property("uart-has-rtscts: false")

Could you update the commit message to be clear that that's the case?
Just something like "as the IP supports hardware flow control on all
SoCs".

With that,
Acked-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,
Conor.

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