Re: [PATCH v1 11/13] serial: 8250_exar: Use BIT() in exar_ee_read()

From: Parker Newman
Date: Fri May 03 2024 - 10:26:51 EST


On Thu, 2 May 2024 20:20:01 +0300
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 07:08:21PM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2 May 2024, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > > // Send address to read from
> > > - for (i = 1 << (UART_EXAR_REGB_EE_ADDR_SIZE - 1); i; i >>= 1)
> > > - exar_ee_write_bit(priv, (ee_addr & i));
> > > + for (i = UART_EXAR_REGB_EE_ADDR_SIZE - 1; i >= 0; i--)
> > > + exar_ee_write_bit(priv, ee_addr & BIT(i));
> > >
> > > // Read data 1 bit at a time
> > > for (i = 0; i <= UART_EXAR_REGB_EE_DATA_SIZE; i++) {
> > > - data <<= 1;
> > > - data |= exar_ee_read_bit(priv);
> > > + if (exar_ee_read_bit(priv))
> > > + data |= BIT(i);
> >
> > Does this end up reversing the order of bits? In the original, data was left
> > shifted which moved the existing bits and added the lsb but the replacement
> > adds highest bit on each iteration?
>
> Oh, seems a good catch!
>
> I was also wondering, but missed this somehow. Seems the EEPROM is in BE mode,
> so two loops has to be aligned.
>

I just tested this and Ilpo is correct, the read loop portion is backwards as
expected. This is the corrected loop:

// Read data 1 bit at a time
for (i = UART_EXAR_REGB_EE_DATA_SIZE; i >= 0; i--) {
if (exar_ee_read_bit(priv))
data |= BIT(i);
}

I know this looks wrong because its looping from 16->0 rather than the
more intuitive 15->0 for a 16bit value. This is actually correct however
because according to the AT93C46D datasheet there is always dummy 0 bit
before the actual 16 bits of data.

I hope that helps,
-Parker