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    Subject[76/93] serial: 8250: add serial transmitter fully empty test
    2.6.32-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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    From: Dick Hollenbeck <dick@softplc.com>

    commit bca476139d2ded86be146dae09b06e22548b67f3 upstream.

    When controlling an industrial radio modem it can be necessary to
    manipulate the handshake lines in order to control the radio modem's
    transmitter, from userspace.

    The transmitter should not be turned off before all characters have been
    transmitted. serial8250_tx_empty() was reporting that all characters were
    transmitted before they actually were.

    ===

    Discovered in parallel with more testing and analysis by Kees Schoenmakers
    as follows:

    I ran into an NetMos 9835 serial pci board which behaves a little
    different than the standard. This type of expansion board is very common.

    "Standard" 8250 compatible devices clear the 'UART_LST_TEMT" bit together
    with the "UART_LSR_THRE" bit when writing data to the device.

    The NetMos device does it slightly different

    I believe that the TEMT bit is coupled to the shift register. The problem
    is that after writing data to the device and very quickly after that one
    does call serial8250_tx_empty, it returns the wrong information.

    My patch makes the test more robust (and solves the problem) and it does
    not affect the already correct devices.

    Alan:

    We may yet need to quirk this but now we know which chips we have a
    way to do that should we find this breaks some other 8250 clone with
    dodgy THRE.

    Signed-off-by: Dick Hollenbeck <dick@softplc.com>
    Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Kees Schoenmakers <k.schoenmakers@sigmae.nl>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

    ---
    drivers/serial/8250.c | 7 ++++---
    1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

    --- a/drivers/serial/8250.c
    +++ b/drivers/serial/8250.c
    @@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ static unsigned int skip_txen_test; /* f

    #define PASS_LIMIT 256

    +#define BOTH_EMPTY (UART_LSR_TEMT | UART_LSR_THRE)
    +
    +
    /*
    * We default to IRQ0 for the "no irq" hack. Some
    * machine types want others as well - they're free
    @@ -1792,7 +1795,7 @@ static unsigned int serial8250_tx_empty(
    up->lsr_saved_flags |= lsr & LSR_SAVE_FLAGS;
    spin_unlock_irqrestore(&up->port.lock, flags);

    - return lsr & UART_LSR_TEMT ? TIOCSER_TEMT : 0;
    + return (lsr & BOTH_EMPTY) == BOTH_EMPTY ? TIOCSER_TEMT : 0;
    }

    static unsigned int serial8250_get_mctrl(struct uart_port *port)
    @@ -1850,8 +1853,6 @@ static void serial8250_break_ctl(struct
    spin_unlock_irqrestore(&up->port.lock, flags);
    }

    -#define BOTH_EMPTY (UART_LSR_TEMT | UART_LSR_THRE)
    -
    /*
    * Wait for transmitter & holding register to empty
    */



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