On 02/12/2015 03:45 AM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On 02/11/2015 09:42 PM, Peter Hurley wrote: > >>> Reverting makes sense to me if it has caused a regression. Maybe Sebastian >>> can update his patch to do this based on some quirk flag instead? >> >> That's fine with me. There's a 'bugs' field in struct 8250_uart_port and >> UART_BUG_* defines in 8250/8250.h for that purpose. > > Makes sense. Reading an empty FIFO does not look right. Maybe we should > do the bug flag the other way around? But I can do what I am told to so > if there is more fallout than just this Marvell UART I could come > around with a patch to the bug field for the older OMAP.
I agree with Russell on this; better to stick with the rx read that's been running on 20 years of hardware. That said, I don't think serial8250_do_startup() is really doing that much for OMAP h/w startup; open-coding what omap_8250 really needs is probably < 10 loc. Regards, Peter Hurley -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
