linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: don't do termios for BTIF

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Date:   Thu, 13 Dec 2018 11:00:29 +0000
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Ryder Lee <ryder.lee@...iatek.com>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>,
        Sean Wang <sean.wang@...nel.org>,
        Weijie Gao <weijie.gao@...iatek.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Roy Luo <cheng-hao.luo@...iatek.com>,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: don't do termios for BTIF

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 02:24:03PM +0800, Ryder Lee wrote:
> The MediaTek BTIF controller doesn't need to set termios so add
> a new capability 'UART_CAP_NMOD' for the unsupported case.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ryder Lee <ryder.lee@...iatek.com>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.h      | 1 +
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 7 ++++++-
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.h b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.h
> index ebfb0bd..2b9ba39 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.h
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.h
> @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ struct serial8250_config {
>  #define UART_CAP_MINI	(1 << 17)	/* Mini UART on BCM283X family lacks:
>  					 * STOP PARITY EPAR SPAR WLEN5 WLEN6
>  					 */
> +#define UART_CAP_NMOD	(1 << 18)	/* UART doesn't do termios */
>  
>  #define UART_BUG_QUOT	(1 << 0)	/* UART has buggy quot LSB */
>  #define UART_BUG_TXEN	(1 << 1)	/* UART has buggy TX IIR status */
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
> index c39482b..e4a69a0 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c
> @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@
>  		.tx_loadsz	= 16,
>  		.fcr		= UART_FCR_ENABLE_FIFO |
>  				  UART_FCR_CLEAR_RCVR | UART_FCR_CLEAR_XMIT,
> -		.flags		= UART_CAP_FIFO,
> +		.flags		= UART_CAP_FIFO | UART_CAP_NMOD,
>  	},
>  	[PORT_NPCM] = {
>  		.name		= "Nuvoton 16550",
> @@ -2663,6 +2663,11 @@ static unsigned int serial8250_get_baud_rate(struct uart_port *port,
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  	unsigned int baud, quot, frac = 0;
>  
> +	if (up->capabilities & UART_CAP_NMOD) {
> +		termios->c_cflag = 0;

So your port is limited to 5-bits and is unable to receive characters?
That's what a zero cflag means, and that's what you'll be telling
userspace here.

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