[U-Boot] [PATCH] serial: lpc32xx: send CR before LF

Vladimir Zapolskiy vz at mleia.com
Sun Dec 1 08:11:29 CET 2013


Dear Marek Vasut,

On 12/01/13 01:06, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dear Vladimir Zapolskiy,
>
>> On 11/30/13 17:42, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>> Dear Vladimir Zapolskiy,
>>>
>>>> For LPC32XX high-speed UART it is required to send a carriage return
>>>> symbol along with line feed.
>>>
>>> Why ?
>>>
>>>> The problem was introduced in e503f90a
>>>> commit.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy<vz at mleia.com>
>>>> Cc: Marek Vasut<marex at denx.de>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>>    drivers/serial/lpc32xx_hsuart.c |    3 +++
>>>>    1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/serial/lpc32xx_hsuart.c
>>>> b/drivers/serial/lpc32xx_hsuart.c index 9c7c621..c8926a8 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/serial/lpc32xx_hsuart.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/serial/lpc32xx_hsuart.c
>>>> @@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ static int lpc32xx_serial_getc(void)
>>>>
>>>>    static void lpc32xx_serial_putc(const char c)
>>>>    {
>>>>
>>>> +	if (c == '\n')
>>>> +		serial_putc('\r');
>>>> +
>>>>
>>>>    	writel(c,&hsuart->tx);
>>>>    	
>>>>    	/* Wait for character to be sent */
>>>
>>> btw. I have a feeling each and every driver does send CR-LF combo and
>>> emulates it this way. Maybe this should eventually go into common code ?
>>> But that's just a suggestion for future improvement.
>>
>> No objections from my side, however it seems that not every particular
>> serial
>> controller requires such a hook, for code generalization it may be good
>> to have
>> it for all drivers, but strict enforcement may be redundant for some
>> subset.
>
> This would need further investigation, very detailed one.

if you anticipate that such investigation and testing will take significant
amount of time, I'd be glad, if you let the regression fix in before doing
code generalization.

With best wishes,
Vladimir


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