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authorBaruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>2018-06-28 10:25:32 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-06-28 15:02:38 +0300
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dt-bindings: serial: imx: clarify rs485 support usage
The i.MX UART peripheral uses the RST_B signal as input, and CTS_B as output. This is just like the DCE role in RS-232. This is true regardless of the "DTE mode" setting of this peripheral. As a result, rs485 support hardware must use the CTS_B signal to control the RS-485 transceiver. This is in contrast to generic rs485 kernel code, documentation, and DT property names that consistently refer to the RTS as transceiver control signal. Add a note in the DT binding document about that, to reduce the confusion somewhat. Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il> Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/fsl-imx-uart.txt6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/fsl-imx-uart.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/fsl-imx-uart.txt
index afcfbc34e243..35957cbf1571 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/fsl-imx-uart.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/fsl-imx-uart.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,11 @@ Optional properties:
- fsl,dte-mode : Indicate the uart works in DTE mode. The uart works
in DCE mode by default.
- rs485-rts-delay, rs485-rts-active-low, rs485-rx-during-tx,
- linux,rs485-enabled-at-boot-time: see rs485.txt
+ linux,rs485-enabled-at-boot-time: see rs485.txt. Note that for RS485
+ you must enable either the "uart-has-rtscts" or the "rts-gpios"
+ properties. In case you use "uart-has-rtscts" the signal that controls
+ the transceiver is actually CTS_B, not RTS_B. CTS_B is always output,
+ and RTS_B is input, regardless of dte-mode.
Please check Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/serial.txt
for the complete list of generic properties.