The current code only wakes up the processes when the circle buffer has less data then the WAKEUP_CHARS. But sometimes, the circle buffer may has data more then the WAKEUP_CHARS, in such case, the processes will hang. This patch makes it always wakes up the processes in the TX callback. Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <b32955@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/imx.c | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c index d799140..dff0f0a 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/imx.c @@ -496,8 +496,7 @@ static void dma_tx_callback(void *data) dev_dbg(sport->port.dev, "we finish the TX DMA.\n"); - if (uart_circ_chars_pending(xmit) < WAKEUP_CHARS) - uart_write_wakeup(&sport->port); + uart_write_wakeup(&sport->port); if (waitqueue_active(&sport->dma_wait)) { wake_up(&sport->dma_wait); -- 1.7.2.rc3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html