Re: [PATCH v3 12/14] tty: serial: atmel: Only divide Clock Divisor if the IP is USART

[<Sergiu.Moga@microchip.com>]

On 14.09.2022 14:01, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2022, Sergiu Moga wrote:
> 
>> Make sure that the driver only divides the clock divisor if the
>> IP handled at that point is USART, since UART IP's do not support
>> implicit peripheral clock division. Instead, in the case of UART,
>> go with the highest possible clock divisor.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sergiu Moga <sergiu.moga@microchip.com>
>> ---
>>
>>
>> v1 -> v2:
>> - Nothing, this patch was not here before and is mainly meant as both cleanup
>> and as a way to introduce a new field into struct atmel_uart_port that will be
>> used by the last patch to diferentiate between USART and UART regarding the
>> location of the Baudrate Clock Source bitmask.
>>
>>
>>
>> v2 -> v3:
>> - Use ATMEL_US_CD instead of 65535
>> - Previously [PATCH 10]
> 
> 
>> @@ -2283,10 +2287,21 @@ static void atmel_set_termios(struct uart_port *port,
>>                cd = uart_get_divisor(port, baud);
>>        }
>>
>> -     if (cd > 65535) {       /* BRGR is 16-bit, so switch to slower clock */
>> +     /*
>> +      * If the current value of the Clock Divisor surpasses the 16 bit
>> +      * ATMEL_US_CD mask and the IP is USART, switch to the Peripheral
>> +      * Clock implicitly divided by 8.
>> +      * If the IP is UART however, keep the highest possible value for
>> +      * the CD and avoid needless division of CD, since UART IP's do not
>> +      * support implicit division of the Peripheral Clock.
>> +      */
>> +     if (atmel_port->is_usart && cd > ATMEL_US_CD) {
>>                cd /= 8;
>>                mode |= ATMEL_US_USCLKS_MCK_DIV8;
>> +     } else {
>> +             cd &= ATMEL_US_CD;
> 
> Now that I read the above comment with more thought, would:
>                  cd = min(cd, ATMEL_US_CD);
> be more appropriate here if "the highest possible value" is sought for?
> 
> 
> --
>   i.
> 



Yes, you are right, that would actually be the correct operation. I 
somehow only thought of frequencies lower than ATMEL_US_CD when writing 
that operation, although the commentary does say my intention. Thanks :).


Regards,
	Sergiu