dw8250_set_termios() questions

[Alex Elder]

Heikki, I have not been a subscriber of the linux-serial
mailing list and didn't see this patch go by:
    serial: 8250_dw: clock rate handling for all ACPI platforms
    http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-serial/msg12861.html

I had been working on doing something very similar for some
Broadcom device tree based devices and it might have been
helpful for me to have seen it.  What I ended up with was
*very* similar to what you did.  Here is the last version
of the patch I posted:
    https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/1/323

There *are* some differences, and I'd like to inquire about
them before I simply use the code you have for my purpose.

These first two relate to whether I can use your
code as-is:
- Why do you skip setting the clock if a null "old"
  pointer is supplied?
- I don't believe it's necessary to surround the clock
  rate change with clk_disable_unprepare() and
  clk_prepare_enable().  Do you believe otherwise?

This one is addressed to how your code is used now:
- Alan Cox had this question about my patch, and
  it seems to apply to your code as well:
    "This assumes an arbitarily configurable clock,
    which is not I think the usual case."
    https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/28/91
  His point is that the clock, if adjustable, may
  not support a rate that produces an acceptable
  signal rate.  Put another way, there may be a
  better frequency than what the clock framework
  selects that (in combination with the UART
  divisor latch registers) produces the best--or
  even a good--signal.  Is there any chance any
  ACPI platforms will suffer this problem?

Thanks.

					-Alex
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