On Mar 22, 2017, at 4:07 AM, Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org wrote:
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 03:50:11AM -0700, Greg Hazel wrote:
On one side of Greybus I have a small nuttX environment with a UART connected device which I can write modules for, and on the other side of Greybus I’d like to provide a network interface. I can’t modify that side, so I have to work with the kernel modules it has available. I thought it might be possible to present a virtual USB CDC-EVM to Greybus, and my guess (hope) is that cdc_ether would pick it up on the other side.
Ah, if this isn't really a network device, or modem, I wouldn't mess with cdc-evm. If it is a modem, then it should "just work" with the uart code today, just tell userspace this is a modem and all should be fine.
Indeed, that would be the way to go.
This suggestion isn’t clear to me. The UART device is not a standard network device or modem; it needs some of my software to behave like one. I’d like to present it in a way that Greybus can provide to the host machine. cdc-evm was my first guess at that interface; but what do you think would be better?
You said you have a UART connected device on your module, so the easiest way to expose that is to use the Greybus bridged-phy class to expose it as a tty device to user space.
What exactly do you have connected on the other side of that module uart?
That UART is currently a TI SimpleLink/EasyLink. I’m also considering a slip-radio. These are relatively simple wrappers from radio to ethernet. Most importantly, I can only control the software on my side of the Greybus, so using bridged-phy to expose the UART as a tty would not enable me to use the tty on the other side…
-Greg