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Subject: [PATCH 1/2] serial: Add flush_buffer() operation to uart_ops

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Serial drivers using DMA (like the atmel_serial driver) tend to get very
confused when the xmit buffer is flushed and nobody told them.  They
also tend to spew a lot of garbage since the DMA engine keeps running
after the buffer is flushed and possibly refilled with unrelated data.

This patch adds a new flush_buffer operation to the uart_ops struct,
along with a call to it from uart_flush_buffer() right after the xmit
buffer has been cleared. The driver can implement this in order to
syncronize its internal DMA state with the xmit buffer when the buffer
is flushed.

Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Haavard Skinnemoen
2008-07-16 21:52:36 +01:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 15648f154a
commit 6bb0e3a59a
3 changed files with 14 additions and 0 deletions
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include/linux/serial_core.h
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@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ struct uart_ops {
void (*break_ctl)(struct uart_port *, int ctl);
int (*startup)(struct uart_port *);
void (*shutdown)(struct uart_port *);
void (*flush_buffer)(struct uart_port *);
void (*set_termios)(struct uart_port *, struct ktermios *new,
struct ktermios *old);
void (*set_ldisc)(struct uart_port *);