Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] serial: 8250: Turn IER bits on only after irq has been set up

["Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>]

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On Mon, 19 Sep 2022, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 06:44:49PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 06:36:16PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 04:38:04PM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > 
> > Side note:
> > 
> > $ git grep -n -w setup_irq -- drivers/tty/
> > drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:382:        .setup_irq      = univ8250_setup_irq,
> > drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:2341:       retval = up->ops->setup_irq(up);
> > 
> > which rises a question of whether we need the setup_irq member in the
> > respective structure.
> 
> And to be confident, the files that include linux/serial_8250.h and have
> setup_irq word in them (recursive `git grep`) in entire source tree:
> 
> drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c
> drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
> include/linux/serial_8250.h

Thanks. I know about it already.

The whole struct uart_8250_ops seems useless indirection layer (and 
IIRC the results of my history dig, it was added w/o any justification). 
It's on my kill list already :-) but I'll wait a bit with the cleanups to 
avoid -linus vs -next conflicts.

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