On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 05:31:01PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote: > On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 04:43:42PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 07:07:30PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote: > > > Add a new interface for registering a serdev controller and clients, and > > > a helper function to deregister serdev devices (or a tty device) that > > > were previously registered using the new interface. > > > > > > Once every driver currently using the tty_port_register_device() helpers > > > have been vetted and converted to use the new serdev registration > > > interface (at least for deregistration), we can move serdev registration > > > to the current helpers and get rid of the serdev-specific functions. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > --- > > > drivers/tty/serdev/serdev-ttyport.c | 6 ++- > > > drivers/tty/tty_port.c | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > include/linux/serdev.h | 7 +++- > > > include/linux/tty.h | 9 +++++ > > > 4 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > > > This patch doesn't apply > > Probably because it was generated against v4.11-rc which did not have > the write_buf wrapper which you just reverted (after which the patch > seems to apply just fine again). > > I'll submit a rebased v2 of the two remaining patches anyway. > > > and should it really be a 4.12-final patch? > > I think so. serdev was enabled in 4.11 by hooking into the tty layer at > the wrong place, which is what this series addresses. I had hoped to get > at least the revert-patch into 4.11-final, and the rest into 4.12, to > avoid disabling something which had once been enabled. > > The remaining two patches only re-enables serdev for a subset of tty > drivers (for which it is safe to do so) by using the new tty-port > registration functions in serial-core only. > > In effect we'd up with serdev disabled in 4.11 and enabled for > serial-core in 4.12 (which is the first release that has driver using > serdev). > > Does that make sense? Ok, fair enough, now queued up, 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
