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Date:   Thu, 29 Sep 2022 13:51:40 +0300 (EEST)
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To:     Sherry Sun <sherry.sun@nxp.com>
cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "serial: fsl_lpuart: Reset prior to
 registration"
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On Thu, 29 Sep 2022, Sherry Sun wrote:

> This reverts commit 60f361722ad2ae5ee667d0b0545d40c42f754daf.
> 
> commit 60f361722ad2 ("serial: fsl_lpuart: Reset prior to registration")
> causes the lpuart console cannot work any more. Since the console is
> registered in the uart_add_one_port(), the driver cannot identify the
> console port before call uart_add_one_port(), which causes all the uart
> ports including the console port will be global reset.
> So need to revert this patch to avoid breaking the lpuart console.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sherry Sun <sherry.sun@nxp.com>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c
> index 67fa113f77d4..7da46557fcb3 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c
> @@ -2722,10 +2722,6 @@ static int lpuart_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  		handler = lpuart_int;
>  	}
>  
> -	ret = lpuart_global_reset(sport);
> -	if (ret)
> -		goto failed_reset;
> -

So the problem with this being so early is uart_console() in 
lpuart_global_reset() that doesn't detect a console because sport->cons is 
not yet assigned? Couldn't that be worked around differently?

Or is there something else in addition to that I'm missing?

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