Re: [PATCH] Revert "serial: 8250: Fix reporting real baudrate value in c_ospeed field"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 03:31:46PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> This reverts commit 32262e2e429cdb31f9e957e997d53458762931b7.
> 
> The commit in question claims to determine the inverse of
> serial8250_get_divisor() but failed to notice that some drivers override
> the default implementation using a get_divisor() callback.
> 
> This means that the computed line-speed values can be completely wrong
> and results in regular TCSETS requests failing (the incorrect values
> would also be passed to any overridden set_divisor() callback).
> 
> Similarly, it also failed to honour the old (deprecated) ASYNC_SPD_FLAGS
> and would break applications relying on those when re-encoding the
> actual line speed.
> 
> There are also at least two quirks, UART_BUG_QUOT and an OMAP1510
> workaround, which were happily ignored and that are now broken.
> 
> Finally, even if the offending commit were to be implemented correctly,
> this is a new feature and not something which should be backported to
> stable.
> 
> Cc: Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 17 -----------------
>  1 file changed, 17 deletions(-)

Argh, sorry I missed this, good catch.  I'll go queue this up now,
thanks.

greg k-h