linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250_dw: Handle no_console

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Message-ID: <5469B828.90401@intel.com>
Date:	Mon, 17 Nov 2014 09:56:08 +0100
From:	Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@...el.com>
To:	Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
CC:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	Chris Zhong <zyw@...k-chips.com>,
	linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@...omium.org>,
	mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com, heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com,
	andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com, wens@...e.org,
	alan@...ux.intel.com, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250_dw: Handle no_console_suspend when uart
 loses state

> In certain suspend modes on certain boards the 8250 UART may lose
> state when the device goes to suspend.  If we're using
> no_console_suspend this can cause lots of problems during resume.
>
> Let's cache the basic UART config registers at suspend time and if we
> notice that the UART loses state (by looking at a canary stored in the
> scratch register) we'll restore it.

If I'm not wrong, it's already done in acpi_lpss suspend/resume (for 
8250_dw).
Commit c78b0830667a7e7c1f0ca65b76b33166a84806b3.

Regards,
Loic

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