[PATCH v2 5/9] dt_bindings: rs485: Correct delay values

Andy Shevchenko andy.shevchenko at gmail.com
Sun Jul 3 11:36:20 PDT 2022


On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 7:02 PM Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> From: Lino Sanfilippo <l.sanfilippo at kunbus.com>
>
> Currently the documentation claims that a maximum of 1000 msecs is allowed
> for RTS delays. However nothing actually checks the values read from device
> tree/ACPI and so it is possible to set much higher values.
>
> There is already a maximum of 100 ms enforced for RTS delays that are set
> via the uart TIOCSRS485 ioctl. To be consistent with that use the same
> limit for DT/ACPI values.
>
> Although this change is visible to userspace the risk of breaking anything
> when reducing the max delays from 1000 to 100 ms should be very low, since
> 100 ms is already a very high maximum for delays that are usually rather in
> the usecs range.

Yeah, something similar is what you need to add to the previous patch IIUC.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



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