atmel_serial: receive data lost in RS485 mode

atmel_serial: receive data lost in RS485 mode

[Ronald Wahl]

Hi,

on our AT91 board we use the RS485 mode on the serial port and noticed 
some data loss in some circumstances. (kernel 2.6.38.7)

What happens is the following: When starting TX the RX part is disabled:

atmel_start_tx():
		...
		if (atmel_port->rs485.flags & SER_RS485_ENABLED)
			atmel_stop_rx(port);
		...

When TX is done it is enabled again:

atmel_tx_dma():
		...
		if (atmel_port->rs485.flags & SER_RS485_ENABLED) {
			/* DMA done, stop TX, start RX for RS485 */
			atmel_start_rx(port);
		}
		...

Since the RS485 mode is only half duplex this looks ok (or at least not 
wrong) at the first glance but it only works if RX is enabled 
synchronously when TX is done. Actually it happens under some 
circumstances that there is a latency between TX done and enabling RX 
again. All data received during that time is lost.

So the question is: Why disabling RX at all during TX? I can't see any 
benefit. I removed this two code parts above and all works perfectly 
well and no data is lost anymore.

greets,
ron

PS: I'm not on the list - please keep me in Cc. Thx!

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