On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 01:36:43PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 05:53:19PM -0700, Peter Hurley wrote:
> > As outlined in my January email ("RFC: out-of-tree tty driver breakage"),
> > the tty/serial core uses 5 bits in the tty_port.flags field to manage
> > state. They are:
[...]
> > The last patch of the series purposefully breaks out-of-tree driver
> > builds to ensure they update state test/change methods to the helpers
> > instead.
> >
> > REQUIRES: "tty: Replace TTY_IO_ERROR bit tests with tty_io_error()"
> > "tty: Replace TTY_THROTTLED bit tests with tty_throttled()"
>
> Wonderful, thanks for doing this work.
And particular thanks from us out-of-tree driver maintainers for
making the breakage apparent. It always sucks when a change goes in
under our radar that causes breakage without even causing a compiler
warning. [Yea, I know if the drivers were in-tree, this wouldn't be a
problem.]
--
Grant
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