Antwort: Re: [PATCH v3] serial: ns16550: Fix ordering of getting base address

Wolfgang Wallner wolfgang.wallner at br-automation.com
Mon Apr 6 09:08:37 CEST 2020


Hi Bin,

-----"Bin Meng" <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> schrieb: -----

>On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 6:32 PM Andy Shevchenko
><andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 06:35:32PM -0700, Bin Meng wrote:
>> > Currently the driver gets ns16550 base address in the driver
>> > probe() routine, which may potentially break any ns16550 wrapper
>> > driver that does additional initialization before calling
>> > ns16550_serial_probe().
>> >
>> > Things are complicated that we need consider ns16550 devices on
>> > both simple-bus and PCI bus. To fix the issue we move the base
>> > address assignment for simple-bus ns16550 device back to the
>> > ofdata_to_platdata(), and assign base address for PCI ns16550
>> > device in ns16550_serial_probe().
>> >
>> > This is still not perfect. If any PCI bus based ns16550 wrapper
>> > driver tries to access plat->base before calling probe(), it is
>> > still subject to break.
>> >
>> > Fixes: 720f9e1fdb0c9 ("serial: ns16550: Move PCI access from
>ofdata_to_platdata() to probe()")
>> > Reported-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
>>
>> And re-tested. Works for me, thanks!
>>
>> > Tested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com>
>> > Reviewed-by: Wolfgang Wallner
><wolfgang.wallner at br-automation.com>
>> > Tested-by: Wolfgang Wallner <wolfgang.wallner at br-automation.com>
>> >
>
>applied to u-boot-x86, thanks!
>

Maybe a little late, but I have also re-tested v3 now and can
confirm it still works, thanks!

regards, Wolfgang


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