Re: [PATCH v2] serial: 8250_dw: Improve unwritable LCR workaround

From: James Hogan
Date: Fri Dec 06 2013 - 18:51:46 EST


On Friday 06 December 2013 23:29:02 James Hogan wrote:
> So it looks like the LCR does always change immediately for me in this case
> (obviously it hasn't hit the BUSY case), but not all the bits can be
> written. In particular bit 5 and bit 7 at the least. If I do this (sorry
> for whitespace munging):
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
> b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
> index 4658e3e..722d448 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
> @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ static void dw8250_serial_out(struct uart_port *p, int
> offset, int value)
> if (offset == UART_LCR) {
> int tries = 1000;
> while (tries--) {
> - if (value == p->serial_in(p, UART_LCR))
> + if (value & ~0xa0 == p->serial_in(p, UART_LCR) & ~0xa0)
> return;
> dw8250_force_idle(p);
> writeb(value, p->membase + (UART_LCR << p->regshift));
> @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ static void dw8250_serial_out32(struct uart_port *p, int
> offset, int value)
> if (offset == UART_LCR) {
> int tries = 1000;
> while (tries--) {
> - if (value == p->serial_in(p, UART_LCR))
> + if (value & ~0xa0 == p->serial_in(p, UART_LCR) & ~0xa0)

My appologies, that should have had some more brackets (I should have retested
after cleaning up my debugging). I.e.
+ if ((value & ~0xa0) == (p->serial_in(p, UART_LCR) & ~0xa0))

Cheers
James

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