[PATCH 3/3] serial: pl011: allow very high baudrates

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Fri Sep 21 11:05:03 EDT 2012


> Alan - the only issue that remains is handling the invalid baud rate
> situation - if left to individual drivers to do this, we will see them
> doing stuff (as was the case with this very patch - and was the case
> prior to serial_core) such as using dev_err() to print an error and
> merely returning from their set_termios function, or clamping to some
> speed and not feeding back to userspace what they're actually doing.

They've had years to adapt. It's time they got with the program or just
broke horribly.

Alan



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