On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 07:12:08PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
>
> Yuck. Please. No. Doing it this way means you have to modify every
> single serial driver out there which is a mamouth task.
>
> > uart_handle_dcd_change(&up->port, status & UART_MSR_DCD);
>
> Did you not look to see what's in this helper? You'll find within here
> the following code:
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_HARD_PPS
> if ((port->flags & UPF_HARDPPS_CD) && status)
> hardpps();
> #endif
>
> which should've been a big sign lit up in bright lights in Times Square
> pointing you towards the right place to put your code.
Ok.
> Why not continue to leave it as a decision of the administrator - if
> you want ports to default to having PPS support enabled, change all
> the registration to set UPF_HARDPPS_CD. But leave the admin with
> the ability to disable it.
Ok.
> This means that PPS support is not available for any port which wasn't
> autoprobed at device discovery time. That seems quite restrictive.
How I can force probing for a specified uart port?
> Maybe it needs to be coupled with the setting/clearing of UPF_HARDPPS_CD ?
What do you think about? I should enable the PPS support only if the
userland sets the UPF_HARDPPS_CD flag?
Thanks for your comments,
Rodolfo
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