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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Michael Reed <mreed10@us.ibm.com>,
	stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8250_pci: Add IBM Saturn serial card
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:41:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091013194121.49d2d9ae.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1255477253.2347.22.camel@pasglop>

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:40:53 +1100 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> The IBM Saturn serial card has only one port. Without that fixup,
> the kernel thinks it has two, which confuses userland setup and
> admin tools as well.
> 

That sounds seriousish.  I assume it's a long-standing problem, but we
only just noticed it?

I'll cc -stable because it's so simple ;)

> 
> Andrew & Others on CC... not sure who takes care of patches to
> that driver nowadays. Should I send directly to Linus ?

I'll grab them if I see them, especially simple ones.  Sometimes Alan
grabs them too.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-14  2:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-13 23:40 [PATCH] 8250_pci: Add IBM Saturn serial card Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-14  2:41 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-10-14  3:26   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-14 11:48 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-14 21:01   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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