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From: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
To: James Hogan <james@albanarts.com>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>,
	Lior Amsalem <alior@marvell.com>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>,
	James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>, Tim Kryger <tim.kryger@linaro.org>,
	Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>,
	Matt Porter <matt.porter@linaro.org>,
	Markus Mayer <markus.mayer@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250_dw: Fix LCR workaround regression
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:00:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131211140014.GF28456@xps8300> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1386714484-30251-1-git-send-email-james@albanarts.com>

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:28:04PM +0000, James Hogan wrote:
> From: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
> 
> Commit c49436b657d0 (serial: 8250_dw: Improve unwritable LCR workaround)
> caused a regression. It added a check that the LCR was written properly
> to detect and workaround the busy quirk, but the behaviour of bit 5
> (UART_LCR_SPAR) differs between IP versions 3.00a and 3.14c per the
> docs. On older versions this caused the check to fail and it would
> repeatedly force idle and rewrite the LCR register, causing delays and
> preventing any input from serial being received.
> 
> This is fixed by masking out UART_LCR_SPAR before making the comparison.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
> Cc: Tim Kryger <tim.kryger@linaro.org>
> Cc: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
> Cc: Matt Porter <matt.porter@linaro.org>
> Cc: Markus Mayer <markus.mayer@linaro.org>
> Cc: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
> Tested-by: Tim Kryger <tim.kryger@linaro.org>
> Tested-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>

I tested this with HW without the busy functionality
(UART_16550_COMPATIBLE == yes). No problems here. FWIW:

Tested-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>


-- 
heikki

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-11 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-10 22:28 [PATCH] serial: 8250_dw: Fix LCR workaround regression James Hogan
2013-12-11 14:00 ` Heikki Krogerus [this message]
2013-12-11 21:00   ` Tim Kryger
2013-12-11 21:05     ` James Hogan
2013-12-12  1:00       ` Tim Kryger

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