On 07/16/2014 06:06 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:

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well, other than in probe and other functions which need to
make sure clocks are on, but it seems unnecessary to
enable/disable in every function.

What do you have in mind? Do you plan to let the uart on while
the minicom is attached but is doing nothing? In that case,
->startup() and ->shutdown() should be enough.

no the idea was to keep it on for as long as it's transferring 
characters and idle it otherwise, if that can't be done easily,
then I guess your way is the only way.

But maybe we have to add some additional logic here to keep it up for
the transfer. I've been just (maybe over)thinking: If you send 300
bytes over DMA via 300 baud it should take 10 seconds. The PM-timeout
could hit before the transfer is complete.
Same thing with hw-flowcontrol where you could get stalled for a few
seconds.
However it doesn't seem to be a problem in current omap-serial driver.

cheers

Sebastian