On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 11:22:53AM +0000, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote: > 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); Delete the unneeded blank line as well please, when you resend this. thanks, greg k-h -- 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