Re: [PATCH] tty/serial: atmel: RS485 half duplex w/DMA: enable RX after TX is done

From: Richard Genoud
Date: Mon Jan 02 2017 - 09:15:04 EST


2017-01-02 12:53 GMT+01:00 Alexandre Belloni
<alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 06/12/2016 at 13:05:33 +0100, Richard Genoud wrote :
>> When using RS485 in half duplex, RX should be enabled when TX is
>> finished, and stopped when TX starts.
>>
>> Before commit 0058f0871efe7b01c6 ("tty/serial: atmel: fix RS485 half
>> duplex with DMA"), RX was not disabled in atmel_start_tx() if the DMA
>> was used. So, collisions could happened.
>>
>> But disabling RX in atmel_start_tx() uncovered another bug:
>> RX was enabled again in the wrong place (in atmel_tx_dma) instead of
>> being enabled when TX is finished (in atmel_complete_tx_dma), so the
>> transmission simply stopped.
>>
>> This bug was not triggered before commit 0058f0871efe7b01c6
>> ("tty/serial: atmel: fix RS485 half duplex with DMA") because RX was
>> never disabled before.
>>
>> Moving atmel_start_rx() in atmel_complete_tx_dma() corrects the problem.
>>
>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Reported-by: Gil Weber <webergil@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Tested-by: Gil Weber <webergil@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
Greg, could you take this patch in your tree ?