From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Philippe Langlais <philippe.langlais@stericsson.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"gregkh@suse.de" <gregkh@suse.de>,
"alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Ludovic BARRE <ludovic.barre@stericsson.com>,
Vincent GUITTOT <vincent.guittot@stericsson.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] U6715 16550A serial driver support
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 00:22:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100805002206.758777aa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C5A64E0.5060807@stericsson.com>
On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:14:40 +0200 Philippe Langlais <philippe.langlais@stericsson.com> wrote:
>
> >>
> > The patch adds these .set_termios hooks but doesn't actually use them
> > for anything.
> >
> > The changelog doesn't tell us _why_ this was done (it should) and
> > lacking any code to look at it's all a bit mysterious.
> >
> >
> This feature is used in our U6715 8250 platform serial driver, to avoid
> hack in 8250.c set_termios (Alan Cox requirement).
> In this driver the input uart clock frequency depends on baud rate and
> is computed in our set_termios override function.
> The U6715 paltform serial patch has been submitted on linux-arm mailing
> list,
> and is ready to enter Russell King Linux tree.
Oh.
> More things to do ?
Update the changelog to include this rather important information.
As the patches are dependent, treat them as a single series. Russell
can merge them both with Greg's ack or Greg can merge them both with
Russell's ack.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-05 7:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-02 8:58 [PATCH] U6715 16550A serial driver support Philippe Langlais
2010-08-04 19:52 ` Andrew Morton
2010-08-05 7:14 ` Philippe Langlais
2010-08-05 7:22 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-08-05 8:51 ` Philippe Langlais
2010-08-05 9:00 ` Andrew Morton
2010-08-05 23:04 ` Greg KH
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-07-29 15:13 Philippe Langlais
2010-07-29 15:31 ` Alan Cox
2010-07-29 13:32 New U6715 8250 serial patch Philippe Langlais
2010-07-29 13:32 ` [PATCH] U6715 16550A serial driver support Philippe Langlais
2010-07-29 13:53 ` Alan Cox
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