Patch "MIPS: AR7: Ensure that serial ports are properly set up" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    MIPS: AR7: Ensure that serial ports are properly set up

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     mips-ar7-ensure-that-serial-ports-are-properly-set-up.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From b084116f8587b222a2c5ef6dcd846f40f24b9420 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 16:27:20 +0100
Subject: MIPS: AR7: Ensure that serial ports are properly set up

From: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>

commit b084116f8587b222a2c5ef6dcd846f40f24b9420 upstream.

Without UPF_FIXED_TYPE, the data from the PORT_AR7 uart_config entry is
never copied, resulting in a dead port.

Fixes: 154615d55459 ("MIPS: AR7: Use correct UART port type")
Signed-off-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
[jonas.gorski: add Fixes tag]
Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Yoshihiro YUNOMAE <yoshihiro.yunomae.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Nicolas Schichan <nschichan@freebox.fr>
Cc: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17543/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/mips/ar7/platform.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/arch/mips/ar7/platform.c
+++ b/arch/mips/ar7/platform.c
@@ -576,6 +576,7 @@ static int __init ar7_register_uarts(voi
 	uart_port.type		= PORT_AR7;
 	uart_port.uartclk	= clk_get_rate(bus_clk) / 2;
 	uart_port.iotype	= UPIO_MEM32;
+	uart_port.flags		= UPF_FIXED_TYPE;
 	uart_port.regshift	= 2;
 
 	uart_port.line		= 0;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de are

queue-4.4/mips-ar7-ensure-that-serial-ports-are-properly-set-up.patch