Re: [PATCH] serial: set RTS and DTR if flow is 'r' --- resend

[Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM>]

Russell King wrote:
> There may be some sense, however, in allowing DTR to be permanently
> raised for serial consoles.  However, I would err on caution since
> DTR is used to reliably instruct modems to drop the line, so making
> such a change would be undesirable for those folk.
>   
please check following is OK.

YH

[PATCH] serial: set DTR in uart for kernel serial console

Some UARTs on other side need host uart DTR is set, otherwise will not 
receive char from the host that kernel is runing during kernel boot stage.

BTW:
earlyprintk and early_uart are hard coded to set DTR/RTS.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>

*diff --git a/drivers/serial/8250.c b/drivers/serial/8250.c*
index 48e259a..29c051c 100644
*--- a/drivers/serial/8250.c*
*+++ b/drivers/serial/8250.c*
@@ -2154,6 +2154,12 @@ serial8250_set_termios(struct uart_port *port, struct ktermios *termios,
 		}
 		serial_outp(up, UART_FCR, fcr);		/* set fcr */
 	}
+
+	/* some uarts on other side don't support no flow control. So we set
+	 * DTR in host uart to make them happy
+	 */
+	up->port.mctrl |= TIOCM_DTR;
+
 	serial8250_set_mctrl(&up->port, up->port.mctrl);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&up->port.lock, flags);
 }