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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-03-18 23:53:57 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-03-18 23:53:57 -0700 |
| commit | 0702b30dd821ac8a4103ddbe545518713fdca9be (patch) | |
| tree | 8ce0c9f5e58c5ccb99870505eecd139986caa05e /drivers/serial/8250.c | |
| parent | 192d7a4667c6d11d1a174ec4cad9a3c5d5f9043c (diff) | |
| parent | a1e4ee22863d41a6fbb24310d7951836cb6dafe7 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/serial/8250.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/serial/8250.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/serial/8250.c b/drivers/serial/8250.c index 0d934bfbdd9b..b4b39811b445 100644 --- a/drivers/serial/8250.c +++ b/drivers/serial/8250.c @@ -2083,6 +2083,20 @@ static int serial8250_startup(struct uart_port *port) serial8250_set_mctrl(&up->port, up->port.mctrl); + /* Serial over Lan (SoL) hack: + Intel 8257x Gigabit ethernet chips have a + 16550 emulation, to be used for Serial Over Lan. + Those chips take a longer time than a normal + serial device to signalize that a transmission + data was queued. Due to that, the above test generally + fails. One solution would be to delay the reading of + iir. However, this is not reliable, since the timeout + is variable. So, let's just don't test if we receive + TX irq. This way, we'll never enable UART_BUG_TXEN. + */ + if (up->port.flags & UPF_NO_TXEN_TEST) + goto dont_test_tx_en; + /* * Do a quick test to see if we receive an * interrupt when we enable the TX irq. @@ -2102,6 +2116,7 @@ static int serial8250_startup(struct uart_port *port) up->bugs &= ~UART_BUG_TXEN; } +dont_test_tx_en: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&up->port.lock, flags); /* |