Re: [PATCH] serial: samsung: move clock deactivation below uartregistration

[Tomasz Figa]

Hi Heiko,

On Thursday 05 of December 2013 00:54:38 Heiko Stübner wrote:
> Commit 60e93575476f (serial: samsung: enable clock before clearing pending
> interrupts during init) added handling of the controller clock during init.
> 
> On most systems this clock is also one of the baud_clock sources and
> possibly used by the earlycon and thus already enabled by the bootloader.
> 
> Therefore a gap exists between s3c24xx_serial_init_port disabling the
> clock and an attached console reenabling it, making the transition from
> earlycon to regular console possibly hang the system - as seen on my
> S3C2442 based Freerunner today.
> 
> Therefore move the disabling of the clock from s3c24xx_serial_init_port
> below the uart port registration, effectively creating an overlap and
> keeping the clock running non-stop if the console wants to grab this port.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/samsung.c |    8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Makes sense.

Reviewed-by: Tomasz Figa <t.figa@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
Tomasz

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