Re: [PATCH 00/26] tty/serial flow control fixes

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On 09/08/2014 07:43 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 07:33:51PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
>> On 09/08/2014 07:24 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 05:39:09PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
>>>> Hi Greg,
>>>>
>>>> This patch series reworks the internals of tty and serial flow control to
>>>> fix multiple races in both START/STOP flow control and RTS/CTS flow control.
>>>>
>>>> The main changes in this series are:
>>>> Patch 1
>>>>    Backs out the UPF_HARD_FLOW kludge for 8250. This revert should be
>>>>    for mainline and -next
>>>>
>>>> Patches 3-7
>>>>    Fixes to x_char handling (ie., sending START/STOP) both in the serial
>>>>    core and to several UART drivers
>>>>
>>>> Patches 10-15
>>>>    Rename and move ASYNC_CTS_FLOW and ASYNC_CHECK_CD statuses into
>>>>    a private field for the serial core, and add helper functions to test
>>>>    those statuses for UART drivers.
>>>>
>>>>    This is a necessary step toward making tty port->flags SMP-safe, without
>>>>    introducing a new lock.
>>>
>>> I stopped applying at patch 13, due to the objections to that patch.
>>> Please redo the rest of the series and resend.
>>
>> I'm going to wait for the fallout from patch 21 to shake out first.
> 
> Why, the earlier patches in this series should be ok to go, right?  They
> don't depend on 21 to be "correct".

Oh, you want me to redo just 14 through 20, and resend that?

Regards,
Peter Hurley

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