Re: [PATCH 06/16] tty: serial: Add 8250-core based omap driver

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Mon Sep 29 2014 - 09:27:22 EST


* Frans Klaver | 2014-09-29 11:38:23 [+0200]:

>threshold
fixed

>> + /*
>> + * It claims to be 16C750 compatible however it is a little different.
>> + * It has EFR and has no FCR7_64byte bit. The AFE (which it claims to
>> + * have) is enabled via EFR instead of MCR. The type is set here 8250
>> + * just to get things going. UNKNOWN does not work for a few reasons and
>> + * we don't need our own type since we don't use 8250's set_termios()
>> + * and our "bugs" are handeld via the bug member.
>
>handled
replaced that last line with
or pm callback.

since there no bugs member anymore.

>
>> + */
>> + up.port.type = PORT_8250;
>> + up.port.iotype = UPIO_MEM;
>> + up.port.flags = UPF_FIXED_PORT | UPF_FIXED_TYPE | UPF_SOFT_FLOW |
>> + UPF_HARD_FLOW;
>> + up.port.private_data = priv;
>> +
>> + up.port.regshift = 2;
>> + up.port.fifosize = 64;
>> + up.tx_loadsz = 64;
>> + up.capabilities = UART_CAP_FIFO | UART_CAP_EFR | UART_CAP_SLEEP;
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME
>> + /*
>> + * PM_RUNTIME is mostly transparent. However to do it right we need to a
>
>need to _do_ a ...?
I think dropping that 'to' should fix it.

>> + * TX empty interrupt before we can put the device to auto idle. So if
>> + * PM_RUNTIME is not enabled we don't add that flag and can spare that
>> + * one extra interrupt in the TX path.
>> + */
>
><snip>
>
>> +config SERIAL_8250_OMAP
>> + tristate "Support for OMAP internal UART (8250 based driver)"
>> + depends on SERIAL_8250 && ARCH_OMAP2PLUS
>> + help
>> + If you have a machine based on an Texas Instruments OMAP CPU you
>> + can enable its onboard serial ports by enabling this option.
>> +
>> + This driver is in early stage and uses ttyS instead of ttyO.
>> +
>
>I just wondered if this driver should be marked experimental?
What did you have in mind? CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is gone. After all that
debuging that I had in the meantime I was thinking about dropping that
"early stage".

>Thanks,
>Frans

Sebastian
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