From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Shubhrajyoti Datta <shubhrajyoti.datta@xilinx.com>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, jirislaby@kernel.org,
jacmet@sunsite.dk, git@xilinx.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] serial-uartlite: Remove an un-necessary read of control register
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 11:07:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YZ4O+qnkVyhGzuDy@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211123131348.26295-1-shubhrajyoti.datta@xilinx.com>
On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 06:43:48PM +0530, Shubhrajyoti Datta wrote:
> The control register is a writeonly register that's why reading it
> doesn't make any sense.
> The manual states "This is a write-only register. Issuing a read request
> to the control register generates the read acknowledgment with zero data."
Are you sure this is ok to remove? Usually you have to do a read after
a write to ensure that the write succeeded.
What ensures that the write succeeded now if you remove this read?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-24 10:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-23 13:13 [PATCH v2] serial-uartlite: Remove an un-necessary read of control register Shubhrajyoti Datta
2021-11-24 10:07 ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-11-24 12:37 ` Shubhrajyoti Datta
2021-11-24 12:45 ` Greg KH
2021-11-26 14:07 ` Maarten Brock
2021-12-15 11:56 ` Michal Simek
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