[PATCH] mpc52xx_uart: report serial errors to users

[Grant Likely]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:14 AM, René Bürgel <r.buergel at unicontrol.de> wrote:
> Hi! This patch adds the capability to the mpc52xx-uart to report framing
> errors, parity errors, breaks and overruns to userspace. These values may be
> requested in userspace by using the ioctl TIOCGICOUNT.
>
> Signed-off-by: René Bürgel <r.buergel at unicontrol.de>

Looks mostly good.  A few comments below.  Make sure you CC: me when
you send the next version (which goes for all 5xxx patches).

g.

>
> Kind regards, René Bürgel
>
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>
> --- drivers/serial/mpc52xx_uart.c       2008-08-07 15:55:43.000000000 +0200
> +++ drivers/serial/mpc52xx_uart_orig.c  2008-09-11 13:19:12.000000000 +0200

Patch is one level too shallow; for regular tools to work without
manual intervention you should be generating the patch from the
directory above the kernel source.

> @@ -752,10 +752,17 @@
>                        if (status & MPC52xx_PSC_SR_RB) {
>                                flag = TTY_BREAK;
>                                uart_handle_break(port);
> +                               port->icount.brk++;
>                        } else if (status & MPC52xx_PSC_SR_PE)
> +                       {

Please use '} else if () {' form

>                                flag = TTY_PARITY;
> +                               port->icount.parity++;
> +                       }
>                        else if (status & MPC52xx_PSC_SR_FE)
> +                       {

ditto

>                                flag = TTY_FRAME;
> +                               port->icount.frame++;
> +                       }
>
>                        /* Clear error condition */
>                        out_8(&PSC(port)->command, MPC52xx_PSC_RST_ERR_STAT);
> @@ -769,6 +776,7 @@
>                         * affect the current character
>                         */
>                        tty_insert_flip_char(tty, 0, TTY_OVERRUN);
> +                       port->icount.overrun++;
>                }
>        }
>
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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
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