Re: [RFC] OMAP: allow GPIO pin to enable/disable external UART driver chip.

2013-08-14 Thread Mark Jackson
On 13/08/13 21:12, Andrew Ruder wrote: Sorry for the late reply, I've been thinking about this for some time and was sad to see it didn't really evoke any sort of discussion :(. On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 02:58:08PM +0100, Mark Jackson wrote: When a UART transmitter is connected to (eg) a RS485

Re: [RFC] OMAP: allow GPIO pin to enable/disable external UART driver chip.

2013-08-13 Thread Andrew Ruder
Sorry for the late reply, I've been thinking about this for some time and was sad to see it didn't really evoke any sort of discussion :(. On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 02:58:08PM +0100, Mark Jackson wrote: When a UART transmitter is connected to (eg) a RS485 driver, it is necessary to turn the

[RFC] OMAP: allow GPIO pin to enable/disable external UART driver chip.

2013-08-10 Thread Mark Jackson
When a UART transmitter is connected to (eg) a RS485 driver, it is necessary to turn the driver on/off as quickly as possible. This is best achieved in the serial driver itself (rather than in userspace where the latency can be quite large). This patch allows the GPIO pin to be defined (via DT)