linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] atmel_serial: Filter out FP during baud rate detection

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Date:	Tue, 27 May 2008 15:52:48 +0200
From:	Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@...el.com>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux@...im.org.za, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] atmel_serial: Filter out FP during baud rate detection

Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@...el.com> wrote:
> I made a change to u-boot that used the FP (Fractional Part) field of
> BRGR to achieve more accurate baud rate generation. Unfortunately, the
> atmel_serial driver looks at the whole BRGR register when trying to
> detect the baud rate that the port is currently running at, so setting
> FP to a nonzero value breaks the baud rate detection.
> 
> I'll sit on the u-boot patch for a while longer, but this is clearly a
> bug in the atmel_serial driver which should be fixed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@...el.com>

Oh, and before you ask: I think this should go into 2.6.26 and possibly
-stable as well. The sooner we get this into mainline, the sooner we
can start using fractional dividers in u-boot.

Haavard
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