Re: [PATCH 3/3] 8250: add workaround for MPC8[356]xx UART break IRQstorm

From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Fri Dec 02 2011 - 11:34:52 EST


On 11-12-02 06:30 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
>>> OK, I'll simply change the above to CONFIG_PPC then.
>>
>> It does, the bug is in the uart IP which I don't think we ever plan on fixing, so 32 or 64-bit parts will have it for ever and ever ;)
>
> It should be runtime selected, there should be no ifdefs here.

The ifdef wasn't strictly required; it just made it so gcc would
toss the errata code out of the irq handler for !PPC. Anyway it
will be a moot point if I can somehow hide all the mess by snooping
serial_inp() traffic and deploying the errata fix from there....

P.

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