Re: [PATCH] serial: sprd: Support 12 uart ports

[Baolin Wang]

On 8/7/2023 4:07 PM, Wenhua Lin wrote:
> From: Wenhua Lin <wenhua.lin@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Support 12 uart ports, which can solve the problem
> of insufficient uart ports.

This sounds incorrect to me.
If this is a software bug, please add a Fixes tag to backport for stable 
kernels. If the change of the max ports is only avaliable on the new 
SPRD serial hardware, you should ensure the change is 
backward-compatibility with old hardware.

> Signed-off-by: Wenhua Lin <wenhua.lin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/tty/serial/sprd_serial.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/sprd_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/sprd_serial.c
> index b58f51296ace..2774df490899 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/sprd_serial.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/sprd_serial.c
> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
>   #include <linux/tty_flip.h>
>   
>   /* device name */
> -#define UART_NR_MAX		8
> +#define UART_NR_MAX		12
>   #define SPRD_TTY_NAME		"ttyS"
>   #define SPRD_FIFO_SIZE		128
>   #define SPRD_DEF_RATE		26000000