Subject: [PATCH 4/4] serial: xuartps: Rewrite the interrupt handling logic

From: [email-masked] (Peter Hurley)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 14:46:26 -0400

On 08/17/2015 12:00 PM, Anirudha Sarangi wrote:
>> From: Peter Hurley [mailto:peter at hurleysoftware.com]
>> On 08/17/2015 03:22 AM, Michal Simek wrote:
>>> From: Anirudha Sarangi <[email-masked]>
>>>
>>> The existing interrupt handling logic has followins issues.
>>> - Upon a parity error with default configuration, the control
>>>   never comes out of the ISR thereby hanging Linux.
>>> - The error handling logic around framing and parity error are buggy.
>>>   There are chances that the errors will never be captured.
>>> - The existing ISR is just too long.
>>> This patch fixes all these concerns.
>>
>> This patch is unreviewable. Please break this down into multiple patches.
>>
> Thanks. Let me give a shot. It is just breaking the single big ISR that has both Rx and Tx in a single function into smaller ones.
> Not sure how I will create smaller patches, but I will try and get back.

I would start with a refactor patch that splits up the ISR but
makes no other functional changes. Then add the bug fix patches.

Regards,
Peter Hurley

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