Re: [PATCH 1/1] mct_u232: added _ioctl and _get_icount functions

[Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>]

On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 22:34:23 -0800 (PST)
Tsozik <tsozik@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Usually MSR contains information about both states which are raised and
> states which are changed. It looks like we use upper MSR nibble which
> contains information about 4 states which were raised, not lower MSR
> nibble which contains information about 4 states which were changed.

Sure, I know how typical UART works. Does the MCT device deliver the
change states? If it does and you want to use those, go ahead.

> I also researched implementations under usb/serial and saw that all of
> them are rely on the current states (not change states) to increment
> the respective counter variables.

Here's drivers/usb/serial/io_edgeport.c:

static void handle_new_msr(struct edgeport_port *edge_port, __u8 newMsr)
{
	struct  async_icount *icount;

	dbg("%s %02x", __func__, newMsr);

	if (newMsr & (EDGEPORT_MSR_DELTA_CTS | EDGEPORT_MSR_DELTA_DSR |
			EDGEPORT_MSR_DELTA_RI | EDGEPORT_MSR_DELTA_CD)) {
		icount = &edge_port->icount;

		/* update input line counters */
		if (newMsr & EDGEPORT_MSR_DELTA_CTS)
			icount->cts++;
		if (newMsr & EDGEPORT_MSR_DELTA_DSR)
			icount->dsr++;
		if (newMsr & EDGEPORT_MSR_DELTA_CD)
			icount->dcd++;
		if (newMsr & EDGEPORT_MSR_DELTA_RI)
			icount->rng++;
		wake_up_interruptible(&edge_port->delta_msr_wait);
	}

Looks like it counts changes to me. And in any case, the gold standard
is in drivers/serial/8250.c:

static unsigned int check_modem_status(struct uart_8250_port *up)
{
	unsigned int status = serial_in(up, UART_MSR);

	status |= up->msr_saved_flags;
	up->msr_saved_flags = 0;
	if (status & UART_MSR_ANY_DELTA && up->ier & UART_IER_MSI &&
	    up->port.state != NULL) {
		if (status & UART_MSR_TERI)
			up->port.icount.rng++;
		if (status & UART_MSR_DDSR)
			up->port.icount.dsr++;
		if (status & UART_MSR_DDCD)
			uart_handle_dcd_change(&up->port, status & UART_MSR_DCD);
		if (status & UART_MSR_DCTS)
			uart_handle_cts_change(&up->port, status & UART_MSR_CTS);

		wake_up_interruptible(&up->port.state->port.delta_msr_wait);
	}

I only proposed accomplishing the same result by comparing states
in place of relying on hardware change reports like both of the
above do.

-- Pete