[PATCH v5 17/17] serial: 8250: Add 8250_acpi driver

[Sunil V L]

On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 06:32:10PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 07:29:35PM +0530, Sunil V L wrote:
> > On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 06:35:52PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 04:50:57PM +0530, Sunil V L wrote:
> > > > On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 01:09:57PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 03:20:08PM +0530, Sunil V L wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 12:17:59PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > > > > > This driver is not a duplicate of 8250_pnp. It just relies on UART
> > > > > > enumerated as platform device instead of using PNP interfaces.
> > > > > > Isn't it better and simple to have an option to enumerate as platform
> > > > > > device instead of PNP? 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Ah, then extract platform driver first from 8250_core.c.
> > > > > 
> > > > Let me know if I understand your suggestion correctly. Do you mean call
> > > > something like serial8250_acpi_init() from serial8250_init() and
> > > > register the driver directly in serial8250_acpi_init()?
> > > 
> > > Extract the code to be 8250_platform.c and update that file.
> > > I have locally the extraction of RSA code, I will see if I can help you
> > > with the rest.
> > > 
> > Thanks!. That will be helpful. TBH, I don't understand what to do for
> > extracting the platform driver code. There are already several vendor
> > specific UART drivers (ex: 8250_fsl.c) which are enumerated as platform
> > devices. 8250_core.c looks cleanly supporting such drivers which can
> > register themselves with the core. For generic UART, DT has 8250_of.c
> > and ACPI has 8250_pnp.c. But 8250_pnp.c comes with baggage of PNP
> > contract. So, the driver in this patch is similar to vendor specific
> > drivers to support generic uart devices which are enumerated as platform
> > device.
> 
> > I can rename 8250_acpi.c to 8250_platform.c if that is better.
> 
> No, that's not what I meant. We _already_ have a generic platform driver,
> it's just inline in the 8250_core.c and needs to be extracted. When it's done,
> you may simply add an ACPI table to it.
> 
> > Could you please help with a patch even if not compiled so that I can
> > understand your suggestion better? 
> 
Okay, Thanks! Andy.

IIUC, you want to extract serial8250_isa_driver from 8250_core and
then add ACPI support. I was not sure about that since I thought it was
only for legacy ISA devices and they seem to be created by OS itself
instead of discovery. ISA driver has some ordering dependency on PNP
driver as well. Anyway, let me try if that is the acceptable way
forward.

Thanks,
Sunil