Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: Use fifo in 8250 console driver

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 03:40:36PM -0300, Wander Costa wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 1:56 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 06:53:48PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 12:40:27PM +0000, Jon Hunter wrote:
> > > > On 25/01/2022 10:29, Wander Costa wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > > Andy, does this work for X86?
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > No, it does NOT fix an issue (I see it on a handful x86) with the legacy UART
> > > (means the 8250_pnp is in use). And I believe the same will be the case on LPSS
> > > ones (8250_dw / 8250_lpss) and HSU (8250_mid), because the patch influences on
> > > all of them.
> >
> > Shall I send a revert and we can continue with a new approach later on?
> >
> 
> Tomorrow (or maybe after tomorrow) I am going to post the fixes I
> already have, and an additional patch adding a build option
> (disabled to default) so people maybe if they want to use the FIFO on
> console write. But I understand if people decide to go
> ahead and revert the patch.

Let me revert this for now.  And no new config options please, this
should "just work".

thanks,

greg k-h