On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 04:00:16PM -0700, Joshua Clayton wrote: > On Wednesday, July 15, 2015 11:22:06 AM you wrote: > > Hi list, > > I'm starting work on an input driver. > > the device is connected to an RS232 uart in my freescale imx6q arm system, > > which has 2 serial ports, one of which is a console > > > > It is not anything like a ps2/at device. > > How can I get it to take over the uart device? A devicetree entry? > > > > I do not understand serio probing, and don't understand if I should use > > serio > > for a non ps2 compatible device. > > > > Any pointers would be helpful. > > > > The input device documentation is great if I can just figure out how to > > connect it to my hardware. > > > > > I went ahead and converted (parts of) the existing userspace driver. > Clearly I am missing something. My driver is registered with serio, but serio > is not associated with any devices. > I turned on the SERIO_SERPORT... > /sys/bus/serio/devices/ is empty. > I would like it to bind my driver to /dev/ttymxc1 (uart 2 on this system), > or its underlying uart.
You need to use inputattach utility to activate serport on the uart of your choosing and tell it what type of serio port to create. Thanks. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
