Re: [PATCH] serial: efm32: Fix parity management in 'efm32_uart_console_get_options()'

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Sat Feb 11 2017 - 13:30:45 EST


On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 10:06:40PM +0100, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_ODD is 0x0300
> UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_EVEN is 0x0200
> So if the UART is configured for EVEN parity, it would be reported as ODD.
> Fix it by testing if the 2 bits are set in the ODD case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Un-tested
> ---
> drivers/tty/serial/efm32-uart.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/efm32-uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/efm32-uart.c
> index ebd8569f9ad5..84034ef20c88 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/efm32-uart.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/efm32-uart.c
> @@ -572,9 +572,9 @@ static void efm32_uart_console_get_options(struct efm32_uart_port *efm_port,
> 16 * (4 + (clkdiv >> 6)));
>
> frame = efm32_uart_read32(efm_port, UARTn_FRAME);
> - if (frame & UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_ODD)
> + if ((frame & UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_ODD) == UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_ODD)
> *parity = 'o';
> - else if (frame & UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_EVEN)
> + else if ((frame & UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_EVEN) == UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_EVEN)

There is really a bug, but the fix looks wrong (although it does the
right thing). The check for UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_EVEN should check both
bits, too.

The right change that works independent of the actual
values would be:

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/efm32-uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/efm32-uart.c
index 195acc868763..00cdffbe4eda 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/efm32-uart.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/efm32-uart.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
#define UARTn_FRAME 0x04
#define UARTn_FRAME_DATABITS__MASK 0x000f
#define UARTn_FRAME_DATABITS(n) ((n) - 3)
+#define UARTn_FRAME_PARITY 0x0300
#define UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_NONE 0x0000
#define UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_EVEN 0x0200
#define UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_ODD 0x0300
@@ -572,12 +573,16 @@ static void efm32_uart_console_get_options(struct efm32_uart_port *efm_port,
16 * (4 + (clkdiv >> 6)));

frame = efm32_uart_read32(efm_port, UARTn_FRAME);
- if (frame & UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_ODD)
+ switch (frame & UARTn_FRAME_PARITY) {
+ case UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_ODD:
*parity = 'o';
- else if (frame & UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_EVEN)
+ break;
+ case UARTn_FRAME_PARITY_EVEN:
*parity = 'e';
- else
+ break;
+ default:
*parity = 'n';
+ }

*bits = (frame & UARTn_FRAME_DATABITS__MASK) -
UARTn_FRAME_DATABITS(4) + 4;


I'd suggest to add

Fixes: 3afbd89c9639 ("serial/efm32: add new driver")

Best regards
Uwe

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