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    serial: 8250: Fix clearing FIFOs in RS485 mode again · f6aa5beb
    Marek Vasut authored
    The 8250 FIFOs indeed need to be cleared after stopping transmission in
    RS485 mode without SER_RS485_RX_DURING_TX flag set. But there are two
    problems with the approach taken by the previous patch from Fixes tag.
    
    First, serial8250_clear_fifos() should clear fifos, but what it really
    does is it enables the FIFOs unconditionally if present, clears them
    and then sets the FCR register to zero, which effectively disables the
    FIFOs. In case the FIFO is disabled, enabling it and clearing it makes
    no sense and in fact can trigger misbehavior of the 8250 core. Moreover,
    the FCR register may contain other FIFO configuration bits which may not
    be writable unconditionally and writing them incorrectly can trigger
    misbehavior of the 8250 core too. (ie. AM335x UART swallows the first
    byte and retransmits the last byte twice because of this FCR write).
    
    Second, serial8250_clear_and_reinit_fifos() completely reloads the FCR,
    but what really has to happen at the end of the RS485 transmission is
    clearing of the FIFOs and nothing else.
    
    This patch repairs serial8250_clear_fifos() so that it really only
    clears the FIFOs by operating on FCR[2:1] bits and leaves all the
    other bits alone. It also undoes serial8250_clear_and_reinit_fifos()
    from __do_stop_tx_rs485() as serial8250_clear_fifos() is sufficient.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMarek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
    Fixes: 2bed8a8e ("Clearing FIFOs in RS485 emulation mode causes subsequent transmits to break")
    Cc: Daniel Jedrychowski <avistel@gmail.com>
    Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # let it bake a bit before merging
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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