Re: [PATCH v2] serial-uartlite: Remove an un-necessary read of control register

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On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 06:43:48PM +0530, Shubhrajyoti Datta wrote:
> The control register is a writeonly register that's why reading it
> doesn't make any sense.
> The manual states "This is a write-only register. Issuing a read request
> to the control register generates the read acknowledgment with zero data."

Are you sure this is ok to remove?  Usually you have to do a read after
a write to ensure that the write succeeded.

What ensures that the write succeeded now if you remove this read?

thanks,

greg k-h



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