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Paul Burton 3c9dc275db Revert "serial: 8250: Fix clearing FIFOs in RS485 mode again" 
Commit f6aa5beb45 ("serial: 8250: Fix clearing FIFOs in RS485 mode
again") makes a change to FIFO clearing code which its commit message
suggests was intended to be specific to use with RS485 mode, however:

 1) The change made does not just affect __do_stop_tx_rs485(), it also
    affects other uses of serial8250_clear_fifos() including paths for
    starting up, shutting down or auto-configuring a port regardless of
    whether it's an RS485 port or not.

 2) It makes the assumption that resetting the FIFOs is a no-op when
    FIFOs are disabled, and as such it checks for this case & explicitly
    avoids setting the FIFO reset bits when the FIFO enable bit is
    clear. A reading of the PC16550D manual would suggest that this is
    OK since the FIFO should automatically be reset if it is later
    enabled, but we support many 16550-compatible devices and have never
    required this auto-reset behaviour for at least the whole git era.
    Starting to rely on it now seems risky, offers no benefit, and
    indeed breaks at least the Ingenic JZ4780's UARTs which reads
    garbage when the RX FIFO is enabled if we don't explicitly reset it.

 3) By only resetting the FIFOs if they're enabled, the behaviour of
    serial8250_do_startup() during boot now depends on what the value of
    FCR is before the 8250 driver is probed. This in itself seems
    questionable and leaves us with FCR=0 & no FIFO reset if the UART
    was used by 8250_early, otherwise it depends upon what the
    bootloader left behind.

 4) Although the naming of serial8250_clear_fifos() may be unclear, it
    is clear that callers of it expect that it will disable FIFOs. Both
    serial8250_do_startup() & serial8250_do_shutdown() contain comments
    to that effect, and other callers explicitly re-enable the FIFOs
    after calling serial8250_clear_fifos(). The premise of that patch
    that disabling the FIFOs is incorrect therefore seems wrong.

For these reasons, this reverts commit f6aa5beb45 ("serial: 8250: Fix
clearing FIFOs in RS485 mode again").

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Fixes: f6aa5beb45 ("serial: 8250: Fix clearing FIFOs in RS485 mode again").
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Daniel Jedrychowski <avistel@gmail.com>
Cc: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.10+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2018-12-17 16:18:29 +01:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-12-09 15:12:33 -08:00
block blk-mq: punt failed direct issue to dispatch list 2018-12-07 08:16:11 -07:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
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Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-12-09 15:12:33 -08:00
drivers Revert "serial: 8250: Fix clearing FIFOs in RS485 mode again" 2018-12-17 16:18:29 +01:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs a fix for smb3 direct i/o, a fix for CIFS DFS for stable and a minor cifs Kconfig fix 2018-12-09 10:15:13 -08:00
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LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
mm dax fixes 4.20-rc6 2018-12-09 09:54:04 -08:00
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scripts Fixes for stackleak 2018-12-07 13:13:07 -08:00
security selinux/stable-4.20 PR 20181129 2018-11-29 10:15:06 -08:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix mic issue on Acer AIO Veriton Z4860G/Z6860G 2018-12-05 16:39:59 +01:00
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virt Revert "mm, mmu_notifier: annotate mmu notifiers with blockable invalidate callbacks" 2018-10-26 16:25:19 -07:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: change Sparse's maintainer 2018-11-25 09:17:43 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-12-09 15:12:33 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.20-rc6 2018-12-09 15:31:00 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.