On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 02:05:40AM -0500, George Spelvin wrote: > The standard N_TTY line discipline used to not use the tty->disc_data > field, so N_PPS felt free to use it. That has now changed, requiring > that N_PPS use a different method to find its private data. > > (In the current, buggy, state, N_PPS follows a wild pointer and explodes > in an interrupt hander as soon as a pulse actually arrives.) > > Strictly speaking, only patches 5 and 6 are the bugfix proper; the > rest are various cleanups enabled by the looser coupling of the > line disciplines. As this is a breakage in 3.8-rc1, is there any way to pull out patches 5 and 6 in a format that I can apply them now, or in a way that I can get them into 3.8.1 so that this gets fixed? I can't apply all of these to 3.8-final now, as it's way too late. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
