Re: Hardware flowcontrol on XR17D154

["Søren holm" <sgh@sgh.dk>]

> > My particular uart resports (status1 == 6 && status2 == 6). If that is
> > good enough I can add another porttype and add the correct register
> > address as UART_EXAR_EFR in the header file.
> 
> Try it and see. We can put it in -next for a while and then there will a
> release cycle duriing which any unfortunate clashes wil get resolved.

I will prepare and test a patch.

> Alternatively if it's a device attached to a specific platform create it
> as a platform device of some kind in the board specific code and pick
> that up in the serial driver.
> 
> > Another thought could be to write 0xFF (or some other value) to the
> > correct EFR-register and read that byte to test if the register is
> > present. The problem here is that I do not how the bus reacts to
> > writting/reading invalid addresses.
> 
> The trouble is an extra register may in fact be part of some other device
> - it's generally not a great idea if there are other choices.

Ok. It did seem like a dangerous thing to do.

Thanks Alan

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Søren Holm
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