fsi: Add new central chardev support

The various FSI devices (sbefifo, occ, scom, more to come)
currently use misc devices.

This is problematic as the minor device space for misc is
limited and there can be a lot of them. Also it limits our
ability to move them to a dedicated /dev/fsi directory or
to be smart about device naming and numbering.

It also means we have IDAs on every single of these drivers

This creates a common fsi "device_type" for the optional
/dev/fsi grouping and a dev_t allocator for all FSI devices.

"Legacy" devices get to use a backward compatible numbering
scheme (as long as chip id <16 and there's only one copy
of a given unit type per chip).

A single major number and a single IDA are shared for all
FSI devices.

This doesn't convert the FSI device drivers to use the new
scheme yet, they will be converted individually.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/fsi/Kconfig b/drivers/fsi/Kconfig
index 8d82b1e60514..af3a20dd5aa4 100644
--- a/drivers/fsi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/fsi/Kconfig
@@ -12,6 +12,21 @@ menuconfig FSI
 
 if FSI
 
+config FSI_NEW_DEV_NODE
+	bool "Create '/dev/fsi' directory for char devices"
+	default n
+	---help---
+	This option causes char devices created for FSI devices to be
+	located under a common /dev/fsi/ directory. Set to N unless your
+	userspace has been updated to handle the new location.
+
+	Additionally, it also causes the char device names to be offset
+	by one so that chip 0 will have /dev/scom1 and chip1 /dev/scom2
+	to match old userspace expectations.
+
+	New userspace will use udev rules to generate predictable access
+	symlinks in /dev/fsi/by-path when this option is enabled.
+
 config FSI_MASTER_GPIO
 	tristate "GPIO-based FSI master"
 	depends on GPIOLIB