Re: [PATCH 1/2] tty/serial: at91: fix uart/usart selection for olderproducts

From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
Date: Mon Oct 14 2013 - 10:03:13 EST


On 10:43 Thu 10 Oct , Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> Since commit 055560b04a8cd063aea916fd083b7aec02c2adb8 (serial: at91:
> distinguish usart and uart) the older products which do not have a
> name field in their register map are unable to use their serial output.
> As the main console output is usually the serial interface (aka DBGU) it
> is pretty unfortunate.
> So, instead of failing during probe() we just silently configure the serial
> peripheral as an uart. It allows us to use these serial outputs.
> The proper solution is proposed in another patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c | 9 ++-------
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
> index d067285..6b0f75e 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/atmel_serial.c
> @@ -1499,7 +1499,7 @@ static void atmel_set_ops(struct uart_port *port)
> /*
> * Get ip name usart or uart
> */
> -static int atmel_get_ip_name(struct uart_port *port)
> +static void atmel_get_ip_name(struct uart_port *port)
> {
> struct atmel_uart_port *atmel_port = to_atmel_uart_port(port);
> int name = UART_GET_IP_NAME(port);
> @@ -1518,10 +1518,7 @@ static int atmel_get_ip_name(struct uart_port *port)
> atmel_port->is_usart = false;
> } else {
a dev_warn here maybe

usefull to known when we will have a new ip name and not yet wupported

Best Regards,
J.
> dev_err(port->dev, "Not supported ip name, set to uart\n");
> - return -EINVAL;
> }
> -
> - return 0;
> }
>
> /*
> @@ -2405,9 +2402,7 @@ static int atmel_serial_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> /*
> * Get port name of usart or uart
> */
> - ret = atmel_get_ip_name(&port->uart);
> - if (ret < 0)
> - goto err_add_port;
> + atmel_get_ip_name(&port->uart);
>
> return 0;
>
> --
> 1.8.2.2
>
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