On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 7:03 AM, Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The probing of THRE irq behaviour assumes the other end will be reading
> bytes out of the buffer in order to probe the port at driver init. In
> some cases the other end cannot be relied upon to read these bytes, so
> provide a flag for them to skip this step.
>
> Bit 16 was chosen as the flags are a int and the top bits are taken.
19 ?
>
> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/serial_core.h | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
> index 6119516ef5fc..60a6c247340f 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
> @@ -2229,7 +2229,7 @@ int serial8250_do_startup(struct uart_port *port)
> }
> }
>
> - if (port->irq) {
> + if (port->irq && !(up->port.flags & UPF_NO_THRE_TEST)) {
> unsigned char iir1;
> /*
> * Test for UARTs that do not reassert THRE when the
> diff --git a/include/linux/serial_core.h b/include/linux/serial_core.h
> index 58484fb35cc8..260245deec94 100644
> --- a/include/linux/serial_core.h
> +++ b/include/linux/serial_core.h
> @@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ struct uart_port {
> #define UPF_NO_TXEN_TEST ((__force upf_t) (1 << 15))
> #define UPF_MAGIC_MULTIPLIER ((__force upf_t) ASYNC_MAGIC_MULTIPLIER /* 16 */ )
>
> +#define UPF_NO_THRE_TEST ((__force upf_t) (1 << 19))
> /* Port has hardware-assisted h/w flow control */
> #define UPF_AUTO_CTS ((__force upf_t) (1 << 20))
> #define UPF_AUTO_RTS ((__force upf_t) (1 << 21))
> --
> 2.11.0
>
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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