Hi On 16:29 Sat 06 Jul , Jisheng Zhang wrote: > Commit b0b8c84cf58d ("serial: of_serial: Handle auto-flow-control > property") added support for fifo-size and hw-flow-control properties > to avoid adding new types to 8250.c for UARTs that are compatible with > the standard types but that have different size fifo or support 16750 > compatible auto flow control. We avoided many new 8250 port types with > this nice feature, but there's a problem, if the code detects fifo-size > or auto-flow-control property, up->capabilities will be set > accordingly, then serial8250_set_defaults() will ignore the default > port's capabilities: > > |if (!up->capabilities) > | up->capabilities = uart_config[type].flags; > so the previous old logic is trying to override the config of 'type' uart, while this patch try to extend capabilities with default config of 'type' uart as base I tend to agree this is right direction (but wasn't 100% sure..) btw, Jisheng, can you also check serial8250_do_startup()? which has similar logic > If the port's default capabilities contains other bits such as > UART_CAP_SLEEP, UART_CAP_EFR and so on, they are lost. > > Fixes: b0b8c84cf58d ("serial: of_serial: Handle auto-flow-control property") I believe the commit just reveal the problem, make it more visible, but not the root cause, 'git blame' lead to b6830f6df8914f ("serial: 8250: Split base port operations from universal driver") as the original commit introduce this logic which seems exist long time ago.. > Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 3 +-- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c > index 893bc493f662..e20614241229 100644 > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c > @@ -3245,8 +3245,7 @@ void serial8250_set_defaults(struct uart_8250_port *up) > up->port.fifosize = uart_config[type].fifo_size; > if (!up->tx_loadsz) > up->tx_loadsz = uart_config[type].tx_loadsz; > - if (!up->capabilities) > - up->capabilities = uart_config[type].flags; > + up->capabilities |= uart_config[type].flags; > } > > set_io_from_upio(port); > -- > 2.43.0 > -- Yixun Lan (dlan) Gentoo Linux Developer GPG Key ID AABEFD55