This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled serial: 8250: Preserve DLD[7:4] for PORT_XR17V35X to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: serial-8250-preserve-dld-for-port_xr17v35x.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Wed Dec 6 17:39:55 CET 2017 From: Aaron Sierra <asierra@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 10:01:28 -0500 Subject: serial: 8250: Preserve DLD[7:4] for PORT_XR17V35X From: Aaron Sierra <asierra@xxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 0ab84da2e076948c49d36197ee7d254125c53eab ] The upper four bits of the XR17V35x fractional divisor register (DLD) control general chip function (RS-485 direction pin polarity, multidrop mode, XON/XOFF parity check, and fast IR mode). Don't allow these bits to be clobbered when setting the baudrate. Signed-off-by: Aaron Sierra <asierra@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c @@ -2526,8 +2526,11 @@ static void serial8250_set_divisor(struc serial_dl_write(up, quot); /* XR17V35x UARTs have an extra fractional divisor register (DLD) */ - if (up->port.type == PORT_XR17V35X) + if (up->port.type == PORT_XR17V35X) { + /* Preserve bits not related to baudrate; DLD[7:4]. */ + quot_frac |= serial_port_in(port, 0x2) & 0xf0; serial_port_out(port, 0x2, quot_frac); + } } static unsigned int serial8250_get_baud_rate(struct uart_port *port, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from asierra@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/serial-8250-preserve-dld-for-port_xr17v35x.patch