Re: [PATCH 1/8] tty: serial: fsl_lpuart: consider TX FIFO too in tx_empty

From: Greg KH
Date: Sat Jun 25 2016 - 17:26:21 EST


On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 08:40:32PM +0530, Bhuvanchandra DV wrote:
> From: Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently the tx_empty callback only considers the Transmit Complete
> Flag (TC). The reference manual is not quite clear if the TC flag
> covers the TX FIFO too. Debug prints on real hardware have shown that
> from time to time the TC flag is asserted (indicating Transmitter
> idle) while there are still data in the TX FIFO. Hence, in this case
> the serial core will call the shutdown callback even though there are
> data remaining in the TX FIFO buffers.
>
> Avoid early shutdowns by considering the TX FIFO empty flag too. Also
> avoid theoretical race conditions between DMA and the driver by
> checking whether the TX DMA is in progress too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Why are you not signing off on patches that are flowing through you?
Please fix this up and resend the series, after breaking up the clock
change as asked.

thanks,

greg k-h