The change of the max ports is to adapt to an new SPRD serial hardware,also is backward-compatibility with old hardware. Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 于2023年8月7日周一 16:41写道： > > > > On 8/7/2023 4:07 PM, Wenhua Lin wrote: > > From: Wenhua Lin <wenhua.lin@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Support 12 uart ports, which can solve the problem > > of insufficient uart ports. > > This sounds incorrect to me. > If this is a software bug, please add a Fixes tag to backport for stable > kernels. If the change of the max ports is only avaliable on the new > SPRD serial hardware, you should ensure the change is > backward-compatibility with old hardware. > > > Signed-off-by: Wenhua Lin <wenhua.lin@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > drivers/tty/serial/sprd_serial.c | 2 +- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/sprd_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/sprd_serial.c > > index b58f51296ace..2774df490899 100644 > > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/sprd_serial.c > > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/sprd_serial.c > > @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ > > #include <linux/tty_flip.h> > > > > /* device name */ > > -#define UART_NR_MAX 8 > > +#define UART_NR_MAX 12 > > #define SPRD_TTY_NAME "ttyS" > > #define SPRD_FIFO_SIZE 128 > > #define SPRD_DEF_RATE 26000000
