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Message-ID: <3554a99d-339f-39f9-111d-040025096f97@linux.alibaba.com>
Date:   Mon, 7 Aug 2023 16:41:30 +0800
From:   Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     Wenhua Lin <Wenhua.Lin@...soc.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        Orson Zhai <orsonzhai@...il.com>,
        Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        wenhua lin <wenhua.lin1994@...il.com>,
        Xiongpeng Wu <xiongpeng.wu@...soc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: sprd: Support 12 uart ports



On 8/7/2023 4:07 PM, Wenhua Lin wrote:
> From: Wenhua Lin <wenhua.lin@...soc.com>
> 
> Support 12 uart ports, which can solve the problem
> of insufficient uart ports.

This sounds incorrect to me.
If this is a software bug, please add a Fixes tag to backport for stable 
kernels. If the change of the max ports is only avaliable on the new 
SPRD serial hardware, you should ensure the change is 
backward-compatibility with old hardware.

> Signed-off-by: Wenhua Lin <wenhua.lin@...soc.com>
> ---
>   drivers/tty/serial/sprd_serial.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/sprd_serial.c b/drivers/tty/serial/sprd_serial.c
> index b58f51296ace..2774df490899 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/sprd_serial.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/sprd_serial.c
> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
>   #include <linux/tty_flip.h>
>   
>   /* device name */
> -#define UART_NR_MAX		8
> +#define UART_NR_MAX		12
>   #define SPRD_TTY_NAME		"ttyS"
>   #define SPRD_FIFO_SIZE		128
>   #define SPRD_DEF_RATE		26000000

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