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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 12:42:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 09/16] tty: serial: 8250_dma: Add a TX trigger workaround
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* Sebastian Andrzej Siewior | 2014-09-24 09:53:46 [+0200]:

>* Peter Hurley | 2014-09-23 13:03:51 [-0400]:
>
>>But DMA is cheating if the UART driver's tx_empty() method is saying the
>>transmitter is empty while TX DMA is still running.
>This shouldn't be the case. But I will check this once I able to.

I added 

|#define BOTH_EMPTY      (UART_LSR_TEMT | UART_LSR_THRE)
|    trace_printk("delay <%d>\n", (lsr & BOTH_EMPTY) == BOTH_EMPTY ? 1 : 0);

in my set_termios() and the trace shows
|              vi-949   [000] d...    70.477002: omap8250_restore_regs: delay <0>

so no, it does not wait until TX FIFO is empty. It looks like it uses
TCSANOW instead of TCSADRAIN. And since this looks "legal" I will delay
it until TX-DMA is complete because it is known to stall the DMA operation.

>>Regards,
>>Peter Hurley

Sebastian