Re: [PATCH] serial: tegra: Fixes lower tolerance baud rate limit for older tegra chips introduced by d781ec21bae6

[Michał Mirosław]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 01:44:26PM +0100, Patrik John wrote:
> The current implementation uses 0 as lower limit for the baud rate tolerance which contradicts the initial commit description (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tegra/linux.git/commit/drivers/tty/serial/serial-tegra.c?h=for-next&id=d781ec21bae6ff8f9e07682e8947a654484611f5) of +4/-4% tolerance for older tegra chips other than Tegra186 and Tegra194.
> This causes issues on UART initilization as soon as the actual baud rate clock is slightly lower than required which we have seen on the Tegra124-based Toradex Apalis TK1 which also uses tegra30-hsuart as compatible in the DT serial node (for reference line 1540ff https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tegra/linux.git/tree/arch/arm/boot/dts/tegra124-apalis-v1.2.dtsi?h=for-next)
> 
> The standard baud rate tolerance limits are also stated in the tegra20-hsuart driver description (https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/nvidia%2Ctegra20-hsuart.txt).
> 
> The previously introduced check_rate_in_range() always fails due to the lower limit set to 0 even if the actual baud rate is within the required -4% tolerance.
> 
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I have a same patch waiting in my tree [1]. Feel free to use the commit
message and to add:

Reviewed-and-tested-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

[1] https://rere.qmqm.pl/git/?p=linux;a=commitdiff;h=b658dcd83d0db777410fe960721193d35a38115a

Best Regards
Michał Mirosław