While assumed not to make a difference, not using the factor-2 prescaler
makes the receiver more susceptible to errors.
Specifically, there have been reports of problems with devices that
cannot generate a 115200 rate with a smaller error than 2.1% (e.g.
117647 bps). But this can also be reproduced with a low-speed RS232
tranceiver at 115200 when the input rate matches the nominal rate.
So whenever possible, enable the factor-2 prescaler and halve the
divisor in order to use settings closer to that of the previous
algorithm.
Fixes: 35714565089e ("USB: serial: ch341: reimplement line-speed handling")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.5
Reported-by: Jakub Nantl <jn@forever.cz>
Tested-by: Jakub Nantl <jn@forever.cz>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
16 * speed - 16 * CH341_CLKRATE / (clk_div * (div + 1)))
div++;
+ /*
+ * Prefer lower base clock (fact = 0) if even divisor.
+ *
+ * Note that this makes the receiver more tolerant to errors.
+ */
+ if (fact == 1 && div % 2 == 0) {
+ div /= 2;
+ fact = 0;
+ }
+
return (0x100 - div) << 8 | fact << 2 | ps;
}