Re: [PATCH 0/6] serial: 8250: dma fixes

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On 04/10/2016 07:14 AM, Peter Hurley wrote:
> Hi Greg, et. al.

Hi Peter,

> This series aims to keep 8250 dma and the omap8250 variant from
> diverging further, in the hopes that at some point the implementations
> will converge.

I've been told that omap's implementation is too different and I should
stay out of the common code. Nice to see that that will be brought
together as far as possible.

> A similar check is added for the tx chanenl. Soon I expect to add pause
> check to tx channel as well, as I believe it will be required to
> implement XON/XOFF transmit *which is completely missing* - with dma
> enabled the x_char is never transmitted.

Sending XON/XOFF after TX completed would also be away. Pausing the
transfer will lower the chance of an overrun. This requirement can't be
fulfilled by OMAP-DMA, right?

> Regards,

Sebastian

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