Bug in drivers/serial/of_serial.c?

Alon Ziv alonz at discretix.com
Sun Nov 15 20:30:40 EST 2009


As of commit eedacbf0, drivers/serial/of_serial.c forces the serial core
to recognize the xps-uart16550-2.00.b as an NS16550 (which had no FIFO).
Prior to this commit, the kernel's auto-configuration logic would
correctly recognize the UART as NS16550A (with 16-byte FIFO).

The following patch corrects the issue in what I believe to be the
correct way:
---
Xilinx 16550 UART is actually 16550A-compatible

diff --git a/drivers/serial/of_serial.c b/drivers/serial/of_serial.c
index 02406ba..78267af 100644
--- a/drivers/serial/of_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/serial/of_serial.c
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ static int of_platform_serial_remove(struct
of_device *ofdev)
 static struct of_device_id __devinitdata of_platform_serial_table[] = {
 	{ .type = "serial", .compatible = "ns8250",   .data = (void
*)PORT_8250, },
 	{ .type = "serial", .compatible = "ns16450",  .data = (void
*)PORT_16450, },
-	{ .type = "serial", .compatible = "ns16550",  .data = (void
*)PORT_16550, },
+	{ .type = "serial", .compatible = "ns16550",  .data = (void
*)PORT_16550A, },
 	{ .type = "serial", .compatible = "ns16750",  .data = (void
*)PORT_16750, },
 	{ .type = "serial", .compatible = "ns16850",  .data = (void
*)PORT_16850, },
 #ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_OF_PLATFORM_NWPSERIAL
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