From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit c6dce2626606ef16434802989466636bc28c1419 upstream. Since commit 557aaa7ffab6 ("ft232: support the ASYNC_LOW_LATENCY flag") the FTDI driver has been using a receive latency-timer value of 1 ms instead of the device default of 16 ms. The latency timer is used to periodically empty a non-full receive buffer, but a status header is always sent when the timer expires including when the buffer is empty. This means that a two-byte bulk message is received every millisecond also for an otherwise idle port as long as it is open. Let's restore the pre-2009 behaviour which reduces the rate of the status messages to 1/16th (e.g. interrupt frequency drops from 1 kHz to 62.5 Hz) by not setting ASYNC_LOW_LATENCY by default. Anyone willing to pay the price for the minimum-latency behaviour should set the flag explicitly instead using the TIOCSSERIAL ioctl or a tool such as setserial (e.g. setserial /dev/ttyUSB0 low_latency). Note that since commit 0cbd81a9f6ba ("USB: ftdi_sio: remove tty->low_latency") the ASYNC_LOW_LATENCY flag has no other effects but to set a minimal latency timer. Reported-by: Antoine Aubert <a.aubert@xxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 557aaa7ffab6 ("ft232: support the ASYNC_LOW_LATENCY flag") Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c index 5ed104787474..e2e564a071fc 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c @@ -1829,8 +1829,6 @@ static int ftdi_sio_port_probe(struct usb_serial_port *port) mutex_init(&priv->cfg_lock); - priv->flags = ASYNC_LOW_LATENCY; - if (quirk && quirk->port_probe) quirk->port_probe(priv); -- 2.12.0