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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: tsbogend@alpha.franken.de (Thomas Bogendoerfer)
Cc: Matteo Croce <technoboy85@gmail.com>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>,
	Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>, Nicolas Thill <nico@openwrt.org>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][MIPS][5/6]: AR7: serial hack
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:01:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080318140133.3d41fd87@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080318133015.GA7239@alpha.franken.de>

> Is there a good reason, why we don't check for BOTH_EMPTY in
> serial8250_console_putchar() ? To match the 2.6.10 behaviour we

A very good one - we have at least 1 byte of FIFO and the serial-ethernet
magic console devices also use that fifo emptying entirely to deduce when
to send a new packet.

> would need that and this would fix the AR7 case without any
> special handling.

If the AR7 is an 8250 why does it need special handling? and indeed why
does serial work on it except for console - or does that fail too.

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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Matteo Croce <technoboy85@gmail.com>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>,
	Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>, Nicolas Thill <nico@openwrt.org>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][MIPS][5/6]: AR7: serial hack
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:01:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080318140133.3d41fd87@core> (raw)
Message-ID: <20080318140133.UQTVI2KbzLl7DeyxT5LEnZBMc1RIa2yN5ZPGTtI70pc@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080318133015.GA7239@alpha.franken.de>

> Is there a good reason, why we don't check for BOTH_EMPTY in
> serial8250_console_putchar() ? To match the 2.6.10 behaviour we

A very good one - we have at least 1 byte of FIFO and the serial-ethernet
magic console devices also use that fifo emptying entirely to deduce when
to send a new packet.

> would need that and this would fix the AR7 case without any
> special handling.

If the AR7 is an 8250 why does it need special handling? and indeed why
does serial work on it except for console - or does that fail too.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-18 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-12  1:21 [PATCH][MIPS][0/6]: AR7 final Matteo Croce
2008-03-12  1:25 ` [PATCH][MIPS][2/6]: AR7 mtd partition map Matteo Croce
2008-03-12  1:26 ` [PATCH][MIPS][3/6]: AR7: VLYNQ bus Matteo Croce
2008-03-29  9:59   ` Florian Lohoff
2008-04-02 12:56     ` Matteo Croce
2008-04-02 18:31       ` Florian Lohoff
2008-04-03  0:19         ` Matteo Croce
2008-04-03  6:08           ` Florian Lohoff
2008-04-02 13:57     ` Matteo Croce
2008-04-02 14:58     ` Matteo Croce
2008-03-12  1:28 ` [PATCH][MIPS][4/6]: AR7 gpio Matteo Croce
2008-03-12  1:30 ` [PATCH][MIPS][5/6]: AR7: serial hack Matteo Croce
2008-03-12  9:31   ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2008-03-13  0:38     ` Matteo Croce
2008-03-13  8:45       ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2008-03-14 15:46         ` Matteo Croce
2008-03-15 10:40           ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2008-03-16 15:45             ` Matteo Croce
2008-03-18 13:30               ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2008-03-18 13:43                 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-03-18 13:49                   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-03-18 14:01                 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-03-18 14:01                   ` Alan Cox
2008-03-18 15:28                   ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2008-03-21  1:55               ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2008-03-27 21:14                 ` Matteo Croce
2008-03-27 21:17                 ` Matteo Croce
2008-03-15 11:38           ` Alan Cox
2008-03-12 11:16   ` Alan Cox
2008-03-13  0:31     ` Matteo Croce
2008-03-13  9:01       ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2008-03-16 15:27         ` Matteo Croce
2008-03-16 15:49         ` Matteo Croce
2008-03-12  1:34 ` [PATCH][MIPS][6/6]: AR7 leds Matteo Croce
2008-03-13  0:34   ` Matteo Croce
2008-03-12 18:06 ` [PATCH][MIPS][1/6]: AR7: core Matteo Croce
2008-03-12 19:33   ` Ralf Baechle
2008-03-29 10:34   ` Florian Lohoff
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-03-18 15:40 [PATCH][MIPS][5/6]: AR7: serial hack Nico Coesel
2008-03-18 15:40 ` Nico Coesel
2007-12-27 18:19 [PATCH][MIPS][0/6]: AR7 refresh Matteo Croce
2007-12-27 18:27 ` [PATCH][MIPS][5/6]: AR7: serial hack Matteo Croce
2007-12-28 12:13   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-10-11  0:48 [PATCH][MIPS][0/6] AR7: AR7 strikes back Matteo Croce
2007-10-11  0:59 ` [PATCH][MIPS][5/6] AR7: serial hack Matteo Croce

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