On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 05:19:02PM +0100, Stefan Agner wrote: > On 2014-12-12 15:32, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 02:44:06PM +0100, Stefan Agner wrote: > >> Any thoughts on this patchset? Would have hopped that it makes it into > >> 3.19 as those are mostly fixes. > > > > "mostly"? > > > > Well, all of them fix a bug, but PATCH 2/4 does this by also moving DMA > allocation to probe. I would really have to split up that patch and make > two incremental steps (split-up of RX/TX DMA allocation to make each > single action revert-able and move to probe). But this would lead to > more changed lines in total. The patchset as is already somewhat tested > since we use it in our 3.18 BSP, whereas a new set would not be tested. > > One could also argument, it only affects fsl_lpuart (UART in rather not > very widespread SoC's Freescale Vybrid and LS1021a). > > > > I'll get to these after 3.19-rc1 is out, but it really looks like these > > will be for 3.20-rc1, unless you break them up into "bugfix only" type > > patches. > > > PATCH 1/4 fixes a bug which happens on a normal console rather often on > my setup. So if you decide that patchset is for 3.20-rc1, that one would > be nice to have in 3.19 as well... Please redo this patchset then, makeing it obvious that some are fixes, and need to go for 3.19 and others are ok for 3.20. As it is, the changelog entries do not look like anything here is for 3.19, sorry. 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
