Hi Greg, On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 10:58 AM gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 08:53:18AM +0000, Prabhakar Mahadev Lad wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Sent: 03 July 2020 09:41 > > > To: Prabhakar Mahadev Lad <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Biju Das <biju.das.jz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; > > > gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Subject: patch "serial: sh-sci: Initialize spinlock for uart console" added to tty-linus > > > > > > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > > > serial: sh-sci: Initialize spinlock for uart console > > > > > > to my tty git tree which can be found at > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git > > > in the tty-linus branch. > > > > > > The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree > > > (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.) > > > > > > The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the > > > next -rc kernel release. > > > > > > If you have any questions about this process, please let me know. > > > > > It looks like it's a regression in serial_core.c [1] as Geert pointed out [2]. Please drop this patch until we come to a conclusion. > > > > [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-serial/msg37119.html > > [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11636731/ > > We have had MANY patches for individual drivers to fix up the issue with > that serial_core patch. I think, and hope, they are all now caught. If > not, please let us know, but for now, this patch is needed, so I'll keep > it. Yeah, let's fix all the fixes when the core issue is fixed ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
