[PATCH] ath6kl: Add ability to set debug uart baud rate

[Valo, Kalle]

Steve deRosier <derosier at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Julian Calaby <julian.calaby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> This looks like it's using standard serial rates. Does it accept
>> non-standard rates? If not, should this be checked before being passed
>> to the hardware?
>>
>
> It should use standard serial rates, and obviously I defaulted it to a
> sensible one. However, there's nothing that prevents you from using
> odd and arbitrary rates in the firmware and it should just suck it in
> and use it. In other words, the firmware will happily try to set 9507
> baud if you tell it to.
>
> This is specifically for debugging and working with the firmware and
> IMHO, if you are using this feature and feel a need to set it to
> something weird, I think the user should be allowed to. If you know
> enough to be able to shoot yourself in the foot with this, then you
> should know enough of what you should or shouldn't do and should be
> allowed to. It's a debugging tool only and I don't see any reason to
> waste lines in the driver to validate this input.

I think likewise, normal users shouldn't touch this setting at all.

-- 
Kalle Valo