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From: "Donald" <donald@asix.com.tw>
To: 'Alan Cox' <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: Questions regarding adding a patch in linux/drivers/char/8250.c
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 20:54:58 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00b701cd3750$f09ced60$d1d6c820$@com.tw> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120521103009.7f4be5e0@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk>

Hi Alan,

Thank you for your quick reply and nice questions. We will have an internal discussion regarding your questions and then I will
reply to your questions as soon as possible. 

Regards,
Donald 

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Cox [mailto:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk] 
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 5:30 PM
To: Donald
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Questions regarding adding a patch in linux/drivers/char/8250.c

On Mon, 21 May 2012 14:19:34 +0800
"Donald" <donald@asix.com.tw> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is Donald from ASIX Electronics Corp. My company has three PCI to Serial controllers, including MCS9845, MCS9835, and
MCS9820.
> Currently those serial devices using these three chips can directly 
> use the Linux kernel's serial driver in linux/drivers/char/8250.c. 
> Recently we find these three chips have a hardware bug relating to parity error count function. We have a software workaround for
this issue. Below for reference is a pseudo code for this workaround.

Actually I have a second question.

Would it not be better to set the device to 8N1 and do the parity in software rather than lose the FIFO, especially at higher speeds
? Can you clarify what the erratum is triggered by ?

Alan




  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-21 12:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-21  6:19 Questions regarding adding a patch in linux/drivers/char/8250.c Donald
2012-05-21  9:28 ` Alan Cox
2012-05-29  8:37   ` Donald
2012-06-18  3:07   ` Donald
2012-06-19  9:18     ` Alan Cox
2012-06-19 12:35       ` Donald
2012-05-21  9:30 ` Alan Cox
2012-05-21 12:54   ` Donald [this message]
2012-05-21 15:07   ` Jason Smith

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