On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 04:32:51PM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 01:24:52PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 02:34:21PM +0200, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:42:06PM +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> > > > >> Would you agree with this kind of patch to fix the issue?
> > > > >>
> > > > >> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.c
> > > > >> index e2ac25a..0b284c6 100644
> > > > >> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.c
> > > > >> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.c
> > > > >> @@ -1119,7 +1119,7 @@ static void autoconfig(struct uart_8250_port *up, unsigned int probeflags)
> > > > >> serial_out(up, UART_LCR, 0);
> > > > >>
> > > > >> serial_out(up, UART_FCR, UART_FCR_ENABLE_FIFO);
> > > > >> - scratch = serial_in(up, UART_IIR) >> 6;
> > > > >> + scratch = (serial_in(up, UART_IIR) & 0xFF) >> 6;
> > > > >>
> > > > >> switch (scratch) {
> > > > >> case 0:
> > > > >
> > > > > Instead, can you test if it's enough for you to set the reg-io-width
> > > > > to 1 instead of 4:
> > > >
> > > > Yes indeed it worked and it seems to be the correct description of my
> > > > hardware. So I will fix the dtsi file.
> > > >
> > > > However isn't buggy to use a function as it returned a char whereas
> > > > it returns an int?
> > >
> > > Yes, the driver should probable be cleaned.
> > >
> > > It seems to be happening in quite a few places in 8250.c.
> > > autoconfig_16550a() has pretty much identical code in it, where
> > > UART_IIR is read to unsigned char and shifted without a mask.
> >
> > Can someone send me the correct fix here, if they want it included in
> > 3.9-final?
>
> The fix is in arm-soc/fixes slated for merging into 3.9:
Nice, I like it when I don't have to do anything....
greg k-h
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