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Date:   Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:50:20 +0100
From:   Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
To:     "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] serial: atmel: don't stop the transmitter when doing
 PIO
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Am 2022-11-23 09:27, schrieb Jiri Slaby (SUSE):
> Writing ATMEL_US_TXDIS to ATMEL_US_CR makes the transmitter NOT to send
> the just queued character. This means when the character is last and
> uart calls ops->stop_tx(), the character is not sent at all.
> 
> The usart datasheet is not much specific on this, it just says the
> transmitter is stopped. But apparently, the character is dropped. So
> we should stop the transmitter only for DMA and PDC transfers to not
> send any more characters. For PIO, this is unexpected and deviates from
> other drivers. In particular, the below referenced commit broke TX as 
> it
> added a call to ->stop_tx() after the very last character written to 
> the
> transmitter.
> 
> So fix this by limiting the write of ATMEL_US_TXDIS to DMA transfers
> only.
> 
> Even there, I don't know if it is correctly implemented. Are all the
> queued characters sent once ->start_tx() is called? Anyone tested flow
> control -- be it hard (RTSCTS) or the soft (XOFF/XON) one?
> 
> Fixes: 2d141e683e9a ("tty: serial: use uart_port_tx() helper")
> Cc: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
> Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>
> Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
> Cc: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@microchip.com>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Reported-by: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) <jirislaby@kernel.org>

Already merged, but:
Tested-by: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>

Thanks,
-michael