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Date:   Tue, 29 Nov 2022 07:20:09 +0800
From:   Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] serial: bflb_uart: add Bouffalolab UART Driver
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On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 06:01:28PM +0200, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2022, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 07:10:41AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > > On 27. 11. 22, 14:24, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> > > > +static void bflb_uart_tx_chars(struct uart_port *port)
> > > 
> > > Again:
> > > 
> > > Are you unable to use the TX helper? If so:
> > 
> > You know serial subsystem better than me, may I ask for more
> > details? For example,
> > Besides uart_xmit_advance(), do you expect other TX helpers? If yes,
> > can you please list them?
> 
> Please take on look on commit 8275b48b278096edc1e3ea5aa9cf946a10022f79.
> The changes following that commit convert some drivers to use the tx 
> helper so you can look into them to see examples.

Thanks a lot for the hint. Will those tx helpers(uart_port_tx,
uart_port_tx_limited etc.) be in v6.2-rc1? Or I need to patch
based on Jiri's devel branch? Aha, Jiri says "at least uart_xmit_advance

> 
> > > * why?
> > > * use uart_advance_xmit() at least.
> > 
> > Do you mean uart_xmit_advance()? in the do while loop below?
> 
> Yes, Jiri had the name wrong. But your code looked like it could use 
> the tx helper instead.