[PATCH] tty: add a DesignWare 8250 driver

Jamie Iles jamie at jamieiles.com
Sat Aug 27 02:20:21 EST 2011


On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 06:04:02PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 26 August 2011, Jamie Iles wrote:
> > The Synopsys DesignWare 8250 is an 8250 that has an extra interrupt that
> > gets raised when writing to the LCR when busy.  To handle this we need
> > special serial_out, serial_in and handle_irq methods.  Add a new
> > platform driver that uses these accessors.
> > 
> > Cc: Alan Cox <alan at linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de>
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie at jamieiles.com>
> 
> The driver looks good to me,
> 
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> 
> Is the patch to export serial8250_handle_irq already in Greg's tree or is that
> still missing?

No, and I really don't know how I missed it.  I was sure an allmodconfig 
build worked, but perhaps 8250_dw wasn't selected.  Anyhow, here's the 
patch that does that.

Apologies again for making such a mess out of this series!

Thanks,

Jamie

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From: Jamie Iles <jamie at jamieiles.com>
Subject: [PATCH] tty: 8250: export serial8250_handle_irq

Allow modules to use the normal 8250 irq handler inside their own.

Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie at jamieiles.com>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/8250.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250.c
index 6f594d2..435ce14 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250.c
@@ -1588,6 +1588,7 @@ int serial8250_handle_irq(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int iir)
 
 	return 0;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(serial8250_handle_irq);
 
 static int serial8250_default_handle_irq(struct uart_port *port)
 {
-- 
1.7.4.1



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