The issue with setting up a fixed clock rate at probe is that it would overwrite the console rate set by the bootloader for its console device. This would result in serial out corruption or missing log when we system is booted with earlycon. This is not a issue if we boot system without earlycon. This setup is ateast not required with the mainline driver. Originally the issue was noticed on DB410c which is based on APQ8016 chipset. Without this patch the console log with earlycon would look like: ... [ 0.000000] RCU: Adjusting geometry for rcu_fanout_leaf=64, nr_cpu_ids=1 [ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:64 nr_irqs:64 0 ����+HH��0.699378] console [ttyMSM0] enabled [ 0.699378] console [ttyMSM0] enabled [ 0.702003] bootconsole [uart0] disabled [ 0.702003] bootconsole [uart0] disabled ... with this patch I can see all the skipped lines on the console Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c index dcde955..0a31b3e 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c @@ -1580,7 +1580,6 @@ static int msm_serial_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) if (IS_ERR(msm_port->pclk)) return PTR_ERR(msm_port->pclk); - clk_set_rate(msm_port->clk, 1843200); } port->uartclk = clk_get_rate(msm_port->clk); -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html