The issue with setting up a fixed clock rate at probe is that it would overwrite the console rate set by the bootloader for its console device. This would result in serial out corruption or missing log when we system is booted with earlycon. This is not a issue if we boot system without earlycon. This setup is at least not required with the mainline driver, this code used to be required because the clk_enable() call would fail if clk_set_rate() wasn't called first. Originally the issue was noticed on DB410c which is based on APQ8016 chipset. Without this patch the console log with earlycon would look like: ... [ 0.000000] RCU: Adjusting geometry for rcu_fanout_leaf=64, nr_cpu_ids=1 [ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:64 nr_irqs:64 0 ����+HH��0.699378] console [ttyMSM0] enabled [ 0.699378] console [ttyMSM0] enabled [ 0.702003] bootconsole [uart0] disabled [ 0.702003] bootconsole [uart0] disabled ... with this patch I can see all the skipped lines on the console Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes since v1: - removed empty line suggested by Greg KH - added reviewed-by - added extra comment suggested by Stephen Boyd. drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c index dcde955..3bf41ab 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c @@ -1579,8 +1579,6 @@ static int msm_serial_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) msm_port->pclk = devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, "iface"); if (IS_ERR(msm_port->pclk)) return PTR_ERR(msm_port->pclk); - - clk_set_rate(msm_port->clk, 1843200); } port->uartclk = clk_get_rate(msm_port->clk); -- 1.9.1 -- 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
