Minimal patch against TI AM335x UART swallowing the first byte using the 8250_omap driver in RS485 mode

[Falco Hyfing <hyfinglists@xxxxxxxxx>]

I stumbled upon this unresolved issue where the TI AM335x UART is 
sporadically swallowing the first byte using the 8250_omap driver in 
RS485 mode.

Previous discussions of the issue ended on Christmas Eve last year. For 
reference:
https://marc.info/?w=2&r=1&s=fix+clearing+fifos+rs485+mode+again&q=t

As our company plans to move our serial device servers' firmware to an 
upstream kernel version we need a solution for this problem.

I appended a small patch that seems to resolve the issue for our products.

I would like to kindly ask whether you could test this patch with 
various serial hardware that would be affected by this driver.

Kind regards,

    Falco Hyfing
    Software Engineer at VisionSystems GmbH


diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c 
b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
index 8407166610ce..25dd44d5f6ff 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
@@ -1405,7 +1405,8 @@ static void __do_stop_tx_rs485(struct 
uart_8250_port *p)
         * Enable previously disabled RX interrupts.
         */
        if (!(p->port.rs485.flags & SER_RS485_RX_DURING_TX)) {
-               serial8250_clear_and_reinit_fifos(p);
+               serial_port_out(&p->port, UART_FCR, p->fcr |
+                               UART_FCR_CLEAR_RCVR | UART_FCR_CLEAR_XMIT);

                p->ier |= UART_IER_RLSI | UART_IER_RDI;
                serial_port_out(&p->port, UART_IER, p->ier);