* Peter Hurley | 2014-09-23 13:03:51 [-0400]:

readline() does this; it 'saves' the caller's termios, sets termios
for non-canonical reads, reads one char, and 'restores' the caller's
termios.

interresting, thanks. I guess I would need to opimize this a little so
the baudrate isn't going to 0 and back to the requested baudrate.

The tty core calls the driver's wait_until_sent() method before changing
the termios (if TCSADRAIN is used for tcsetattr(), which I think for readline()
it does).

The interresting difference is that when I take the yocto RFS and chroot
into from Debian then I don't this problem. Not sure if this is really
readline or something else?

But DMA is cheating if the UART driver's tx_empty() method is saying the
transmitter is empty while TX DMA is still running.

This shouldn't be the case. But I will check this once I able to.
After TX-DMA is done, "xmit->tail" is updated and port.icount.tx is
incremented. At this time the TX FIFO is still full (up to 64 bytes) and
I set UART_IER_THRI to wait until TX FIFO is empty so I can disable
runtime-pm. Therefore I would assume LSR does not say BOTH_EMPTY until
the FIFO is empty.

Regards,
Peter Hurley

Sebastian