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Date:   Tue, 31 Oct 2023 12:04:11 +0100
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To:     "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
From:   =?utf-8?q?Th=C3=A9o_Lebrun?= <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] tty: serial: amba-pl011: Parse bits option as 5, 6,
 7 or 8 in _get_options
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        "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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        "Tawfik Bayouk" <tawfik.bayouk@mobileye.com>
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Hello,

On Tue Oct 31, 2023 at 11:11 AM CET, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> There is no point in supporting 5 or 6 bits for console usage. Think
> about it. What values are going to be sent over the console? It'll be
> ASCII, which requires at _least_ 7-bit. 6-bit would turn alpha
> characters into control characters, punctuation and numbers. 5-bit
> would be all control characters.
>
> So there's no point trying to do anything with 5 or 6 bits per byte,
> and I decided we might as well take that as an error (or maybe a
> case that the hardware has not been setup) and default to 8 bits per
> byte.

I see your point. Two things come to mind:

 - I added this parsing of 5/6 bits to be symmetrical with
   pl011_set_termios that handles 5/6 properly. Should pl011_set_termios
   be modified then?

 - If a value of 5 or 6 means the hardware has not been setup, shouldn't
   we ignore all other parsed values?

If you decide to keep the current behavior, I'd be down to adding a
comment to explicit this choice in pl011_console_get_options.

Regards,

--
Th=C3=A9o Lebrun, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

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