[PATCH v6 11/16] OMAP2+: UART: Move errata handling from serial.c to omap-serial

Govindraj govindraj.ti at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 06:43:11 EDT 2011


On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Kevin Hilman <khilman at ti.com> wrote:
> "Govindraj.R" <govindraj.raja at ti.com> writes:
>
>> Move the errata handling mechanism from serial.c to omap-serial file
>> and utilise the same func in driver file.
>>
>> Errata i202, i291 are moved to be handled with omap-serial
>> Moving the errata macro from serial.c file to driver header file
>> as from on errata will be handled in driver file itself.
>>
>> Corrected errata id from chapter reference 2.15 to errata id i291.
>>
>> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan at linux.intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Govindraj.R <govindraj.raja at ti.com>
>
> The errata handling for i291 is moved from device code to driver code
> but it's functionality is also changed (but not described.)
>
> In the current mainline code, The workaround for i291 is done whenever
> UART clocks are about to be cut.  When the clocks are (re)enabled, the
> device is put back into no-idle.
>
> This patch puts the device into force-idle just before the idle/suspend
> transistion, but never puts it back into no-idle.  So after the first
> idle/suspend transition, the IP remains in force-idle forever.  I don't
> think that's what we want.
>

I was thinking no_idle will be done once we re-enable uart clocks
from omap_device_enable but that's not the case looking into the code.

Will correct it will add no_idle call from .runtime_resume as done early
where we put into no_idle(sysc) while enabling the clocks.

--
Thanks,
Govindraj.R



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