Re: [PATCH 1/1] tty, serial, 8250: to avoid recv fifo overrun, read rx fifo during xmit

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On 02/18/2015 02:28 PM, George Spelvin wrote:
> A question I might ask you is whether you think it's necessary to wait
> for TEMT in serial8250_put_poll_char at all.  Yes, a panic just as
> the baud rate is being changed or a break is being sent could mangle
> the last character, but such a race is a serious risk of losing those
> characters *anyway*.

I'm not sure, George. There are a lot of random FPGA 16550-workalikes
that vary considerable on how they indicate TEMT/THRE and how they behave
wrt INTs + tx + tx fifo.

Regards,
Peter Hurley

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