start_tx must start transmitting characters. Regardless of the state of
the circular buffer, always enable the transmitter hardware.

Signed-off-by: Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkm...@xilinx.com>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/xilinx_uartps.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/xilinx_uartps.c 
b/drivers/tty/serial/xilinx_uartps.c
index 2c98c357d9a0..df6778d17949 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/xilinx_uartps.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/xilinx_uartps.c
@@ -512,9 +512,6 @@ static void cdns_uart_start_tx(struct uart_port *port)
 {
        unsigned int status, numbytes = port->fifosize;
 
-       if (uart_circ_empty(&port->state->xmit) || uart_tx_stopped(port))
-               return;
-
        /*
         * Set the TX enable bit and clear the TX disable bit to enable the
         * transmitter.
@@ -524,6 +521,9 @@ static void cdns_uart_start_tx(struct uart_port *port)
        status |= CDNS_UART_CR_TX_EN;
        writel(status, port->membase + CDNS_UART_CR_OFFSET);
 
+       if (uart_circ_empty(&port->state->xmit) || uart_tx_stopped(port))
+               return;
+
        while (numbytes-- && ((readl(port->membase + CDNS_UART_SR_OFFSET) &
                                CDNS_UART_SR_TXFULL)) != CDNS_UART_SR_TXFULL) {
                /* Break if no more data available in the UART buffer */
-- 
2.6.3.3.g9bb996a

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