Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] serial: 8250_dw: fall back to poll if there's no interrupt

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On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 12:20:11PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 05:20:54PM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> > When there's no irq(this can be due to various reasons, for example,
> > no irq from HW support, or we just want to use poll solution, and so
> > on), falling back to poll is still better than no support at all.
> 
> Ouch, really?  Why not just fix the hardware instead?
> 

Hi Greg,

The HW may be designed as that to save interrupt lines if the uart
is dedicated to debug purpose. I also see similar support in other
uart drivers, for example liteuart.c, altera_uart.c, altera_jtaguart.c
8250_ioc3.c and so on.

Thanks



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