Re: [PATCH] serial: imx: also enable Transmit Complete interrupt in rs232 mode

[Rasmus Villemoes]

On 22/11/2023 14.01, Frieder Schrempf wrote:
> On 22.11.23 09:03, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
>> On 21/11/2023 21.49, Eberhard Stoll wrote:

>>> But IMHO there is one next issue with this situation: When the port
>>> operates with WAIT_AFTER_RTS and WAIT_AFTER_SEND then some timers
>>> for callback functions might be active. I did not discover where they
>>> are stopped for the case when the serial port is closed. Maybe stopping
>>> is not required ...
>>
>> Indeed, that's an extra complication. Adding two hrtimer_try_to_cancel()
>> in shutdown would probably not hurt, along with setting tx_state OFF.
>>
>> I wonder if at least mode switching should simply be disallowed (-EBUSY)
>> if tx_state is anything but OFF.
> 
> Is there a valid use-case for switching the mode while the device is
> transmitting? Is this something we need to support for whatever reason?
> It sounds rather an obscure thing to do.

No, I don't think there is, and that's not at all what I'm trying to do.
I was just thinking out loud that maybe we should explicitly disallow it
[further, in fact, if possible, it should be disallowed in the serial
core]. But of course that requires that ->tx_state can actually be
relied upon, which is what my patch attempts to do for the rs232 case -
though it might not be an entirely complete fix, as described by
Eberhard, since we can get to ->shutdown and thus disable the TC
interrupt before it has a chance to fire.

Rasmus