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    USB: serial: add MaxLinear/Exar USB to Serial driver · c2d405aa
    Manivannan Sadhasivam authored
    Add support for MaxLinear/Exar USB to Serial converters. This driver
    only supports XR21V141X series but it can be extended to other series
    from Exar as well in future.
    
    This driver is inspired from the initial one submitted by Patong Yang:
    
    https://lore.kernel.org/r/20180404070634.nhspvmxcjwfgjkcv@advantechmxl-desktop
    
    While the initial driver was a custom tty USB driver exposing whole
    new serial interface ttyXRUSBn, this version is completely based on USB
    serial core thus exposing the interfaces as ttyUSBn. This will avoid
    the overhead of exposing a new USB serial interface which the userspace
    tools are unaware of.
    
    The Exar XR21V141X can be used in either ACM mode using the cdc-acm
    driver or in "custom driver" mode in which further features such as
    hardware and software flow control, GPIO control and in-band line-status
    reporting are available.
    
    In ACM mode the device always enables RTS/CTS flow control, something
    which could prevent transmission in case the CTS input isn't wired up
    corrently.
    
    A follow-on patch will prevent cdc_acm from binding whenever this driver
    is enabled.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarManivannan Sadhasivam <mani@kernel.org>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201122170822.21715-2-mani@kernel.org
    [ johan: fix some style nits, group related functions, drop unused
    	 callbacks, and amend commit message; a few remaining
    	 non-trivial issues will be fixed separately ]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
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