RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH V1 1/1] serial: fsl_lpuart: zero out parity bit in CS7 mode

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2022 10:31 AM
> To: Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH V1 1/1] serial: fsl_lpuart: zero out parity bit in CS7
> mode
> 
> Caution: EXT Email
> 
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 03:26:30PM +0000, Shenwei Wang wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2022 10:24 AM
> > > To: Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@xxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH V1 1/1] serial: fsl_lpuart: zero out
> > > parity bit in CS7 mode
> > >
> > > Caution: EXT Email
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 03:11:35PM +0000, Shenwei Wang wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2022 9:31 AM
> > > > > To: Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@xxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > > Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH V1 1/1] serial: fsl_lpuart: zero out
> > > > > parity bit in CS7 mode
> > > > >
> > > > > Caution: EXT Email
> > > > >
> > > > > On Fri, Jul 08, 2022 at 02:58:00PM -0500, shenwei.wang@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > > > The LPUART hardware doesn't zero out the parity bit on the
> > > > > > received characters. This behavior won't impact the use cases
> > > > > > of
> > > > > > CS8 because the parity bit is the 9th bit which is not
> > > > > > currently used by
> > > software.
> > > > > > But the parity bit for CS7 must be zeroed out by software in
> > > > > > order to get the correct raw data.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Shenwei Wang <shenwei.wang@xxxxxxx>
> > > > >
> > > > > What commit id does this fix?
> > > >
> > > > The issue should have been there since the driver was written. As
> > > > the CS7
> > > mode was rarely used, we didn't notice the problem in the driver before.
> > >
> > > So should this be backported to older stable kernels?
> > >
> >
> > Yes, that would be great.
> 
> Great, properly label it as such when you resend this.

This is my first time to handle this kind of label. Can you let me know how to label it for older stable kernels?

Thanks,
Shenwei

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h




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