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<title>serial: dz: Convert to use a platform device</title>
<updated>2026-06-09T10:32:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@orcam.me.uk</email>
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<published>2026-05-06T22:42:48+00:00</published>
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commit 5d7a49d60b8fda66da60e240fd7315232fa1754f upstream.

Prevent a crash from happening as the first serial port is initialised:

  Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64
  tgafb: SFB+ detected, rev=0x02
  fb0: Digital ZLX-E1 frame buffer device at 0x1e000000
  DECstation DZ serial driver version 1.04
  CPU 0 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000000bc, epc == 8048b3a4, ra == 80470a78
  Oops[#1]:
  CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.19.0-dirty #35 NONE
  $ 0   : 00000000 1000ac00 00000004 804707ac
  $ 4   : 00000000 80e20850 80e20858 81000030
  $ 8   : 00000000 8072c81c 00000008 fefefeff
  $12   : 6c616972 00000006 80c5917f 69726420
  $16   : 80e20800 00000000 808f8968 80e20800
  $20   : 00000000 807f5a90 808b0094 808d3bc8
  $24   : 00000018 80479030
  $28   : 80c2e000 80c2fd70 00000069 80470a78
  Hi    : 00000004
  Lo    : 00000000
  epc   : 8048b3a4 __dev_fwnode+0x0/0xc
  ra    : 80470a78 serial_base_ctrl_add+0xa0/0x168
  Status: 1000ac04	IEp
  Cause : 30000008 (ExcCode 02)
  BadVA : 000000bc
  PrId  : 00000220 (R3000)
  Modules linked in:
  Process swapper/0 (pid: 1, threadinfo=(ptrval), task=(ptrval), tls=00000000)
  Stack : 00400044 00400040 8046f4cc 00000000 808a6148 808a0000 808f8968 8086983c
          808e0000 8046fc84 1000ac01 00000028 80e20700 802ba3f8 80e20700 80d34a94
          80c1b900 80e20700 80e20700 80e20700 80e20700 80444650 00000000 00000000
          00000000 807f5a90 808b0094 80447080 00400040 808e0000 80d34a94 808a6148
          80d34a94 00000004 80e20700 00000000 8076974c 80469810 80c2fe3c 1000ac01
          ...
  Call Trace:
  [&lt;8048b3a4&gt;] __dev_fwnode+0x0/0xc
  [&lt;80470a78&gt;] serial_base_ctrl_add+0xa0/0x168
  [&lt;8046fc84&gt;] serial_core_register_port+0x1c8/0x974
  [&lt;808c6af0&gt;] dz_init+0x74/0xc8
  [&lt;800470e0&gt;] do_one_initcall+0x44/0x2d4
  [&lt;808b111c&gt;] kernel_init_freeable+0x258/0x308
  [&lt;8072e434&gt;] kernel_init+0x20/0x114
  [&lt;80049cd0&gt;] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c

  Code: 27bd0018  03e00008  2402ffea &lt;8c8200bc&gt; 03e00008  00000000  27bdffc0  afbe0038  afb30024

  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

-- where a pointer is dereferenced that has been derived from a null
pointer to the port's parent device.

Since no device is available with legacy probing and it's not anymore a
preferable way to discover devices anyway, switch the driver to using a
platform device and use it as the port's parent device.  Update resource
handling accordingly and only request the actual span of addresses used
within the slot, which will have had its resource already requested by
generic platform device code.

Use platform_driver_probe() not just because the DZ device is fixed with
solder on board and not straightforward to remove, but foremost because
the associated TTY's major device number is the same as used by the zs
driver and the first driver to claim it will prevent the other one from
using it.  Either one DZ device or some SCC devices will be present in a
given system but never both at a time, and therefore we want the major
device number to be claimed by the first driver to actually successfully
bind to its device and platform_driver_probe() is a way to fulfil that.

An unfortunate consequence of the switch to a platform device is we now
hand the console over from the bootconsole much later in the bootstrap.
The firmware console handler appears good enough though to work so late
and in particular with interrupts enabled.

Conversely only starting the console port so late lets the reset code
fully utilise our delay handlers, so switch from udelay() to fsleep()
for transmitter draining so as to avoid busy-waiting for an excessive
amount of time.

Fixes: 84a9582fd203 ("serial: core: Start managing serial controllers to enable runtime PM")
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # needs to use .remove_new for &lt;= 6.10
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/alpine.DEB.2.21.2605062326540.46195@angie.orcam.me.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>serial: dz: Fix bootconsole handover lockup</title>
<updated>2026-06-09T10:32:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@orcam.me.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-06T22:42:35+00:00</published>
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commit 7f127b2208e5e2b817243cad41fe4211a6d5a7a3 upstream.

Calling dz_reset() in the course of setting up the serial device causes
line parameters to be reset and the transmitter disabled.  We've been
lucky in that no message is usually produced to the kernel log between
this call and the later call to uart_set_options() in the course of
console setup done by dz_serial_console_init(), or the system would hang
as the console output handler in the firmware tried to access a port the
transmitter of which has been disabled and line parameters messed up.

This will change with the next change to the driver, so fix dz_reset()
such that line parameters are set for 9600n8 console operation as with
the system firmware and the transmitter re-enabled after reset.  This
also means dz_pm() serves no purpose anymore, so drop it.

Fixes: e6ee512f5a77 ("dz.c: Resource management")
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.25+
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/alpine.DEB.2.21.2605062302010.46195@angie.orcam.me.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>serial: dz: Fix bootconsole message clobbering at chip reset</title>
<updated>2026-06-09T10:32:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@orcam.me.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-06T22:42:31+00:00</published>
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commit ca904f4b42355287bc5ce8b7550ebe909cda4c2c upstream.

In the DZ interface as implemented by the DC7085 gate array the serial
transmitters are double buffered, meaning that at the time a transmitter
is ready to accept the next character there is one in the transmit shift
register still being sent to the line.  Issuing a master clear at this
time causes this character to be lost, so wait an extra amount of time
sufficient for the transmit shift register to drain at 9600bps, which is
the baud rate setting used by the firmware console.

Mind the specified 1.4us TRDY recovery time in the course and continue
using iob() as the completion barrier, since the platforms involved use
a write buffer that can delay and combine writes, and reorder them with
respect to reads regardless of the MMIO locations accessed and we still
lack a platform-independent handler for that.

When called from dz_serial_console_init() this is too early for fsleep()
to work and even before lpj has been calculated and therefore the delay
is actually not sufficient for the transmitter to drain and is merely a
placeholder now.  This will be addressed in a follow-up change.

Fixes: e6ee512f5a77 ("dz.c: Resource management")
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.25+
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/alpine.DEB.2.21.2605062259080.46195@angie.orcam.me.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tty: serial: switch from circ_buf to kfifo</title>
<updated>2024-04-09T13:28:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby (SUSE)</name>
<email>jirislaby@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-05T06:08:23+00:00</published>
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Switch from struct circ_buf to proper kfifo. kfifo provides much better
API, esp. when wrap-around of the buffer needs to be taken into account.
Look at pl011_dma_tx_refill() or cpm_uart_tx_pump() changes for example.

Kfifo API can also fill in scatter-gather DMA structures, so it easier
for that use case too. Look at lpuart_dma_tx() for example. Note that
not all drivers can be converted to that (like atmel_serial), they
handle DMA specially.

Note that usb-serial uses kfifo for TX for ages.

omap needed a bit more care as it needs to put a char into FIFO to start
the DMA transfer when OMAP_DMA_TX_KICK is set. In that case, we have to
do kfifo_dma_out_prepare twice: once to find out the tx_size (to find
out if it is worths to do DMA at all -- size &gt;= 4), the second time for
the actual transfer.

All traces of circ_buf are removed from serial_core.h (and its struct
uart_state).

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Al Cooper &lt;alcooperx@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthias Brugger &lt;matthias.bgg@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno &lt;angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com&gt;
Cc: Kumaravel Thiagarajan &lt;kumaravel.thiagarajan@microchip.com&gt;
Cc: Tharun Kumar P &lt;tharunkumar.pasumarthi@microchip.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Genoud &lt;richard.genoud@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Ferre &lt;nicolas.ferre@microchip.com&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Cc: Claudiu Beznea &lt;claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shiyan &lt;shc_work@mail.ru&gt;
Cc: Baruch Siach &lt;baruch@tkos.co.il&gt;
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Cc: Shawn Guo &lt;shawnguo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sascha Hauer &lt;s.hauer@pengutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Fabio Estevam &lt;festevam@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Neil Armstrong &lt;neil.armstrong@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@baylibre.com&gt;
Cc: Jerome Brunet &lt;jbrunet@baylibre.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Blumenstingl &lt;martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Taichi Sugaya &lt;sugaya.taichi@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Takao Orito &lt;orito.takao@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Andersson &lt;andersson@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Konrad Dybcio &lt;konrad.dybcio@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Pali Rohár &lt;pali@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Manivannan Sadhasivam &lt;manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Alim Akhtar &lt;alim.akhtar@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Laxman Dewangan &lt;ldewangan@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Thierry Reding &lt;thierry.reding@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Hunter &lt;jonathanh@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Orson Zhai &lt;orsonzhai@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Chunyan Zhang &lt;zhang.lyra@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Patrice Chotard &lt;patrice.chotard@foss.st.com&gt;
Cc: Maxime Coquelin &lt;mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Torgue &lt;alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Hammer Hsieh &lt;hammerh0314@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Korsgaard &lt;jacmet@sunsite.dk&gt;
Cc: Timur Tabi &lt;timur@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Sumit Semwal &lt;sumit.semwal@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240405060826.2521-13-jirislaby@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>serial: dz: Use port lock wrappers</title>
<updated>2023-09-18T09:18:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-14T18:37:42+00:00</published>
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When a serial port is used for kernel console output, then all
modifications to the UART registers which are done from other contexts,
e.g. getty, termios, are interference points for the kernel console.

So far this has been ignored and the printk output is based on the
principle of hope. The rework of the console infrastructure which aims to
support threaded and atomic consoles, requires to mark sections which
modify the UART registers as unsafe. This allows the atomic write function
to make informed decisions and eventually to restore operational state. It
also allows to prevent the regular UART code from modifying UART registers
while printk output is in progress.

All modifications of UART registers are guarded by the UART port lock,
which provides an obvious synchronization point with the console
infrastructure.

To avoid adding this functionality to all UART drivers, wrap the
spin_[un]lock*() invocations for uart_port::lock into helper functions
which just contain the spin_[un]lock*() invocations for now. In a
subsequent step these helpers will gain the console synchronization
mechanisms.

Converted with coccinelle. No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Ogness &lt;john.ogness@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230914183831.587273-26-john.ogness@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>serial: drivers: switch ch and flag to u8</title>
<updated>2023-07-25T17:21:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jirislaby@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-12T08:18:11+00:00</published>
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Now that the serial layer explicitly expects 'u8' for flags and
characters, propagate this type to drivers' (RX) routines.

Note that amba-pl011's, clps711x's and st-asc's 'ch' are left unchanged
because 'ch' contains not only a character, but whole status.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Genoud &lt;richard.genoud@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Ferre &lt;nicolas.ferre@microchip.com&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Cc: Claudiu Beznea &lt;claudiu.beznea@microchip.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shiyan &lt;shc_work@mail.ru&gt;
Cc: Baruch Siach &lt;baruch@tkos.co.il&gt;
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Cc: Taichi Sugaya &lt;sugaya.taichi@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Takao Orito &lt;orito.takao@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Shawn Guo &lt;shawnguo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sascha Hauer &lt;s.hauer@pengutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Pengutronix Kernel Team &lt;kernel@pengutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Fabio Estevam &lt;festevam@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: NXP Linux Team &lt;linux-imx@nxp.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Cernekee &lt;cernekee@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Alim Akhtar &lt;alim.akhtar@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Laxman Dewangan &lt;ldewangan@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Thierry Reding &lt;thierry.reding@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Hunter &lt;jonathanh@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Orson Zhai &lt;orsonzhai@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Chunyan Zhang &lt;zhang.lyra@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Patrice Chotard &lt;patrice.chotard@foss.st.com&gt;
Cc: Maxime Coquelin &lt;mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Torgue &lt;alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com&gt;
Cc: Hammer Hsieh &lt;hammerh0314@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Richard GENOUD &lt;richard.genoud@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Thierry Reding &lt;treding@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230712081811.29004-11-jirislaby@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>serial: dz: Use uart_xmit_advance()</title>
<updated>2022-11-03T02:35:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ilpo Järvinen</name>
<email>ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-19T09:11:08+00:00</published>
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Take advantage of the new uart_xmit_advance() helper.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221019091151.6692-2-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>serial: Make -&gt;set_termios() old ktermios const</title>
<updated>2022-08-30T12:22:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ilpo Järvinen</name>
<email>ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-16T11:57:37+00:00</published>
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There should be no reason to adjust old ktermios which is going to get
discarded anyway.

Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy.shevchenko@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220816115739.10928-7-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>serial: dz: Assume previous baudrate is valid</title>
<updated>2022-08-30T12:22:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ilpo Järvinen</name>
<email>ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-16T11:57:34+00:00</published>
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Assume previously used termios has a valid baudrate and use
it directly.

Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy.shevchenko@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220816115739.10928-4-ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>serial: make uart_console_write-&gt;putchar()'s character an unsigned char</title>
<updated>2022-03-03T14:06:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-03T08:08:31+00:00</published>
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Currently, uart_console_write-&gt;putchar's second parameter (the
character) is of type int. It makes little sense, provided uart_console_write()
accepts the input string as "const char *s" and passes its content -- the
characters -- to putchar(). So switch the character's type to unsigned
char.

We don't use char as that is signed on some platforms. That would cause
troubles for drivers which (implicitly) cast the char to u16 when
writing to the device. Sign extension would happen in that case and the
value written would be completely different to the provided char. DZ is
an example of such a driver -- on MIPS, it uses u16 for dz_out in
dz_console_putchar().

Note we do the char -&gt; uchar conversion implicitly in
uart_console_write(). Provided we do not change size of the data type,
sign extension does not happen there, so the problem is void.

This makes the types consistent and unified with the rest of the uart
layer, which uses unsigned char in most places already. One exception is
xmit_buf, but that is going to be converted later.

Cc: Paul Cercueil &lt;paul@crapouillou.net&gt;
Cc: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Ferre &lt;nicolas.ferre@microchip.com&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com&gt;
Cc: Ludovic Desroches &lt;ludovic.desroches@microchip.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com
Cc: Alexander Shiyan &lt;shc_work@mail.ru&gt;
Cc: Baruch Siach &lt;baruch@tkos.co.il&gt;
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" &lt;macro@orcam.me.uk&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Shawn Guo &lt;shawnguo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sascha Hauer &lt;s.hauer@pengutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Pengutronix Kernel Team &lt;kernel@pengutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Fabio Estevam &lt;festevam@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: NXP Linux Team &lt;linux-imx@nxp.com&gt;
Cc: Karol Gugala &lt;kgugala@antmicro.com&gt;
Cc: Mateusz Holenko &lt;mholenko@antmicro.com&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Zapolskiy &lt;vz@mleia.com&gt;
Cc: Neil Armstrong &lt;narmstrong@baylibre.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@baylibre.com&gt;
Cc: Jerome Brunet &lt;jbrunet@baylibre.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Blumenstingl &lt;martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Taichi Sugaya &lt;sugaya.taichi@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Takao Orito &lt;orito.takao@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Liviu Dudau &lt;liviu.dudau@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Cc: "Andreas Färber" &lt;afaerber@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Manivannan Sadhasivam &lt;mani@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Gross &lt;agross@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Andersson &lt;bjorn.andersson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Orson Zhai &lt;orsonzhai@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang7@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chunyan Zhang &lt;zhang.lyra@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Patrice Chotard &lt;patrice.chotard@foss.st.com&gt;
Cc: Maxime Coquelin &lt;mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Torgue &lt;alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Peter Korsgaard &lt;peter@korsgaard.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@xilinx.com&gt;
Acked-by: Richard Genoud &lt;richard.genoud@gmail.com&gt; [atmel_serial]
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Cercueil &lt;paul@crapouillou.net&gt;
Acked-by: Neil Armstrong &lt;narmstrong@baylibre.com&gt; # meson_serial
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220303080831.21783-1-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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