RE: [PATCH v2 tty-next 2/3] 8250: microchip: pci1xxxx: Add rs485 support to quad-uart driver.

[Ilpo Järvinen]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2022, Tharunkumar.Pasumarthi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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> > To: Kumaravel Thiagarajan - I21417
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> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 tty-next 2/3] 8250: microchip: pci1xxxx: Add rs485
> > support to quad-uart driver.
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> > > +     if (rs485->flags & SER_RS485_ENABLED) {
> > > +             memset(rs485->padding, 0, sizeof(rs485->padding));
> > 
> > Core handles this for you.
> 
> I went through the code and it seems like this is not taken care by the core.
> Do you suggest calling 'serial8250_em485_config' inside 'pci1xxxx_rs485_config' callback?
> This has not been done since we do not need all the configurations done inside 'serial8250_em485_config'.
> 
> > > +             if (!(rs485->flags & SER_RS485_RTS_ON_SEND)) {
> > > +                     data |= ADCL_CFG_POL_SEL;
> > > +                     rs485->flags |=  SER_RS485_RTS_AFTER_SEND;
> > > +             } else {
> > > +                     rs485->flags &= ~SER_RS485_RTS_AFTER_SEND;
> > > +             }
> > 
> > Core handles that flags sanitization for you.
> 
> I went through the code and it seems like this is not taken care by the core.
> Do you suggest calling 'serial8250_em485_config' inside 'pci1xxxx_rs485_config' callback?
> This has not been done since we do not need all the configurations done inside 'serial8250_em485_config'.
> 
> > > +     } else {
> > > +             memset(rs485, 0, sizeof(*rs485));
> > 
> > Core handles this.
> 
> I went through the code and it seems like this is not taken care by the core.
> Do you suggest calling 'serial8250_em485_config' inside 'pci1xxxx_rs485_config' callback?
> This has not been done since we do not need all the configurations done inside 'serial8250_em485_config'.
> 
> > > +     writeb(data, (port->membase + ADCL_CFG_REG));
> > > +     port->rs485 = *rs485;
> > 
> > Core handles this.
> 
> I went through the code and it seems like this is not taken care by the core.
> Do you suggest calling 'serial8250_em485_config' inside 'pci1xxxx_rs485_config' callback?
> This has not been done since we do not need all the configurations done inside 'serial8250_em485_config'.

It has nothing to do with serial8250_em485_config.

It is very hard to believe you couldn't find 
uart_sanitize_serial_rs485() and uart_set_rs485_config() yourself, the 
latter calls your driver specific rs485 handler.

-- 
 i.