Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250_exar: Bug fix for determination of number of ports for Commtech PCIe cards

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 05:49:37PM -0400, Valmer Huhn wrote:

Thanks for the report. It needs a slight corrections I tell about below.

> serial: 8250_exar: Bug fix for determination of number of ports for
> Commtech PCIe cards

This should not be present in the body.
And in the subject it would be better to reduce the text to something like

serial: 8250_exar: Fix number of ports for Commtech PCIe cards

> The following line is used to determine the number of ports for each exar
> board in a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_exar.c:589

There is no a/ folder and we don't need the full path anyway, just something
like '8250_exar.c line 589' is enough.

Also refer to Exar with capitalized name.

> nr_ports = board->num_ports ? board->num_ports : pcidev->device & 0x0f;
> 
> If the number of ports a card has is not explicitly specified, it defaults
> to the rightmost 4 bits of the PCI device ID. This is prone to error since
> not all PCI device IDs contain a number which corresponds to the number of
> ports that card provides.
> 
> This particular case involves COMMTECH_4224PCIE and COMMTECH_4228PCIE
> cards with device ID 0x0020 and 0x0021. Currently the multiport cards

'...with device IDs 0x0020, 0x0021 and 0x0022.'

> receive 0 and 1 port instead of 4 and 8 ports respectively.

and update this accordingly.

> To fix this, each Commtech Fastcom PCIe card is given a struct where the
> number of ports is explicitly specified. This ensures 'board->num_ports'
> is used instead of the default 'pcidev->device & 0x0f'.

Please, add a Fixes tag.

Fixes: d0aeaa83f0b0 ("serial: exar: split out the exar code from 8250_pci")

> Signed-off-by: Valmer Huhn <valmer.huhn@concurrent-rt.com>
> Tested-by: Valmer Huhn <valmer.huhn@concurrent-rt.com>

...

> -	EXAR_DEVICE(COMMTECH, 4222PCIE, pbn_exar_XR17V35x),
> -	EXAR_DEVICE(COMMTECH, 4224PCIE, pbn_exar_XR17V35x),
> -	EXAR_DEVICE(COMMTECH, 4228PCIE, pbn_exar_XR17V35x),
> +	EXAR_DEVICE(COMMTECH, 4222PCIE, pbn_fastcom_XR17V352),
> +	EXAR_DEVICE(COMMTECH, 4224PCIE, pbn_fastcom_XR17V354),
> +	EXAR_DEVICE(COMMTECH, 4228PCIE, pbn_fastcom_XR17V358),

For sake of the consistency I would rather see them as

pbn_fastcom35x_2/4/8.

>  	EXAR_DEVICE(COMMTECH, 4222PCI335, pbn_fastcom335_2),
>  	EXAR_DEVICE(COMMTECH, 4224PCI335, pbn_fastcom335_4),

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko