[063/151] Serial: Do not read IIR in serial8250_start_tx when UART_BUG_TXEN

Greg KH
2009-12-17T04:34:34Z

From: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>

commit 68cb4f8e246bbbc649980be0628cae9265870a91 upstream.

Do not read IIR in serial8250_start_tx when UART_BUG_TXEN

Reading the IIR clears some oustanding interrupts so it is not safe.
Instead, simply transmit immediately if the buffer is empty without
regard to IIR.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
drivers/serial/8250.c | 8 +++-----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/serial/8250.c
+++ b/drivers/serial/8250.c
@@ -1339,14 +1339,12 @@ static void serial8250_start_tx(struct u
serial_out(up, UART_IER, up->ier);

if (up->bugs & UART_BUG_TXEN) {
- unsigned char lsr, iir;
+ unsigned char lsr;
lsr = serial_in(up, UART_LSR);
up->lsr_saved_flags |= lsr & LSR_SAVE_FLAGS;
- iir = serial_in(up, UART_IIR) & 0x0f;
if ((up->port.type == PORT_RM9000) ?
- (lsr & UART_LSR_THRE &&
- (iir == UART_IIR_NO_INT || iir == UART_IIR_THRI)) :
- (lsr & UART_LSR_TEMT && iir & UART_IIR_NO_INT))
+ (lsr & UART_LSR_THRE) :
+ (lsr & UART_LSR_TEMT))
transmit_chars(up);
}
}