[PATCH] amba-pl011: support hardware flow control

Rabin VINCENT rabin.vincent at stericsson.com
Tue Feb 9 09:30:56 EST 2010


On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:51:24PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 07:11:50PM +0530, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> > Enable/disable hardware flow control as requested by the termios.
> 
> From what I remember, I didn't implement this because there were
> corner cases to be dealt with.  I don't remember what they were
> off hand though.

We haven't seen any problems with it thus far.  Nothing obvious strikes
me on rechecking the pl011 spec; it would be helpful if you could
elaborate.

Either way, this patch should be safe to apply since existing users of
the driver shouldn't be affected.

Rabin



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