Re: [PATCH 4/7] USB: serial: ftdi_sio: Do not reset baudrate to 9600 on error

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On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 05:52:35PM +0200, Marek Behún wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jul 2022 17:10:42 +0200
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 04:53:51PM +0200, Marek Behún wrote:
> > > From: Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > On failure to set new baudrate, reset baudrate to the previous value
> > > (as is done by other serial drivers) instead of resetting to 9600.  
> > 
> > Where is it mandated that this is correct?  Why not keep the existing
> > functionality?  Did you just break systems that tried to set invalid
> > values and ended up with 9600 as a default?
> 
> Pali says all other drivers keep previous value on failure. He got
> frustrated when working with FTDI devices because they behaved
> differently.

That's fine, but again, you are changing user-visible behavior here, so
you need a real justification for it and be aware that it might break
people's workflow.

thanks,

greg k-h



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