Restarting the transmitter even if the circ buffer is empty may be
necessary to push out remaining data when the port is restarted after
being stopped.

Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: NSoren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
Reviewed-by: NPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>