The low-level uart driver may modify termios settings to override
settings that are not compatible with the uart, such as CRTSCTS.
Thus, callers of the low-level uart driver's set_termios() method must
hold termios_rwsem write lock to prevent concurrent access to termios,
in case such override occurs.

The termios_rwsem lock requirement does not extend to console setup
(ie., uart_set_options), as console setup cannot race with tty
operations. Nor does this lock requirement extend to functions which
cannot be concurrent with tty ioctls (ie., uart_port_startup() and
uart_resume_port()).

Further, always claim the port mutex to protect hardware
re-reprogramming in the set_termios() uart driver method. Note this
is unnecessary for console initialization in uart_set_options()
which cannot be concurrent with other uart operations.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

START_CHAR() & STOP_CHAR() can be disabled if set to '\0'
(__DISABLED_CHAR).  UART drivers which define a send_xchar()
handler must not transmit __DISABLED_CHAR.

Document requirement.

Affected drivers:
sunsab
sunhv

cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
cc: <sparclinux@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

This patch add some helpers to control modem lines (CTS/RTS/DSR...) via
GPIO.
This will be useful for many boards which have a serial controller that
only handle CTS/RTS pins (or even just RX/TX).

Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tested-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

This deletes the .set_wake() callback in the struct uart_ops.
Apparently this has been unused since pre-git times. In the
old-2.6-bkcvs it is deleted as part of a changeset removing
the PM_SET_WAKEUP from pm_request_t which is since also deleted
from the kernel.

The apropriate way to set wakeups in the kernel is to have a
code snippet like this in .suspend() or .runtime_suspend()
callbacks:

static int foo_suspend(struct device *dev)
{
	if (device_may_wakeup(dev)) {
		/* Enable wakeups, set internal states */
	}
}

This specific callback is not coming back.

Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
Cc: Dmitry Artamonow <mad_soft@inbox.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

The serial core is using power states lifted from ACPI for no
good reason. Remove this reference from the documentation and
alter all users to use an enum specific to the serial core
instead, and define it in <linux/serial_core.h>.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Serial drivers using DMA (like the atmel_serial driver) tend to get very
confused when the xmit buffer is flushed and nobody told them.  They
also tend to spew a lot of garbage since the DMA engine keeps running
after the buffer is flushed and possibly refilled with unrelated data.

This patch adds a new flush_buffer operation to the uart_ops struct,
along with a call to it from uart_flush_buffer() right after the xmit
buffer has been cleared. The driver can implement this in order to
syncronize its internal DMA state with the xmit buffer when the buffer
is flushed.

Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Update documentation to match reality. INPCK controls whether input
parity checking is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Improve serial driver documentation:
- Remove CVS id.
- Update pointer to reference driver documentation.
- Add comments about new uart_write_console function.
- Add TIOCM_LOOP modem control bit description.
- Add commentry about enable_ms method being called multiple times.
- Add commentry about startup/shutdown method calling.
- Mention that dereferencing port->info after shutdown is invalid.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>