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authorIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>2022-06-24 23:42:09 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-06-27 14:44:20 +0200
commit4f768e94774c58c9f7f54ebd38dadf172970046a (patch)
treef237520975e9f0839fd2dbbd911d2681288f949e /Documentation/driver-api/serial
parentae50bb2752836277ae15aa4e9d99074d6d947946 (diff)
serial: Support for RS-485 multipoint addresses
Add support for RS-485 multipoint addressing using 9th bit [*]. The addressing mode is configured through ->rs485_config(). ADDRB in termios indicates 9th bit addressing mode is enabled. In this mode, 9th bit is used to indicate an address (byte) within the communication line. ADDRB can only be enabled/disabled through ->rs485_config() that is also responsible for setting the destination and receiver (filter) addresses. Add traps to detect unwanted changes to struct serial_rs485 layout using static_assert(). [*] Technically, RS485 is just an electronic spec and does not itself specify the 9th bit addressing mode but 9th bit seems at least "semi-standard" way to do addressing with RS485. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220624204210.11112-6-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/driver-api/serial')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/serial/driver.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/serial/serial-rs485.rst26
2 files changed, 27 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/serial/driver.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/serial/driver.rst
index 1e7ab4142d49..ee1679858aa2 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/serial/driver.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/serial/driver.rst
@@ -261,6 +261,8 @@ hardware.
- parity enable
PARODD
- odd parity (when PARENB is in force)
+ ADDRB
+ - address bit (changed through .rs485_config()).
CREAD
- enable reception of characters (if not set,
still receive characters from the port, but
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/serial/serial-rs485.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/serial/serial-rs485.rst
index 00b5d333acba..6ebad75c74ed 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/serial/serial-rs485.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/serial/serial-rs485.rst
@@ -99,7 +99,31 @@ RS485 Serial Communications
/* Error handling. See errno. */
}
-5. References
+5. Multipoint Addressing
+========================
+
+ The Linux kernel provides addressing mode for multipoint RS-485 serial
+ communications line. The addressing mode is enabled with SER_RS485_ADDRB
+ flag in serial_rs485. Struct serial_rs485 has two additional flags and
+ fields for enabling receive and destination addresses.
+
+ Address mode flags:
+ - SER_RS485_ADDRB: Enabled addressing mode (sets also ADDRB in termios).
+ - SER_RS485_ADDR_RECV: Receive (filter) address enabled.
+ - SER_RS485_ADDR_DEST: Set destination address.
+
+ Address fields (enabled with corresponding SER_RS485_ADDR_* flag):
+ - addr_recv: Receive address.
+ - addr_dest: Destination address.
+
+ Once a receive address is set, the communication can occur only with the
+ particular device and other peers are filtered out. It is left up to the
+ receiver side to enforce the filtering. Receive address will be cleared
+ if SER_RS485_ADDR_RECV is not set.
+
+ Note: not all devices supporting RS485 support multipoint addressing.
+
+6. References
=============
[1] include/uapi/linux/serial.h