[PATCH 1/2] tty: serial: 8250_mtk: Add earlycon

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Dec 18 01:12:33 PST 2014


On Thursday 18 December 2014 09:48:31 Matthias Brugger wrote:
> > +static void __init mtk8250_serial_putc(struct uart_port *port, int c)
> > +{
> > +       while ((readl(port->membase + (UART_LSR << 2)) & BOTH_EMPTY) !=
> > +               BOTH_EMPTY)
> > +               ;
> 
> Please delete newline before the semicolon.
> 

No, that newline is best kept in there for clarity. An even better way
to write this would be using cpu_relax():

	while ((readl(port->membase + (UART_LSR << 2)) & BOTH_EMPTY) != BOTH_EMPTY)
		cpu_relax();

which the kernel convention for doing busy-loops.

	Arnd



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