On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 6:32 AM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Maybe the next release of the board we will upgrade the serial block to the new version. >> but the issue is that how we circumvent this problem in kernel? > > What is the official vendor workaround ? They introduced a UART_16550_COMPATIBLE option for the IP which should be selected. If configured, writes to the LCR are allowed even if it is "busy" so there is no need to retry. More importantly there is no possibility of failing to write the LCR after numerous retries. -Tim -- 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
