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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] rework quirks for the "kt" serial port
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 12:14:51 -0700
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On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 11:44:22AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> The kt serial port intermittently reports unreliable data in its IIR
> register and needs to reset fifos to stay in sync with firmware when the
> device is reset.
> 
> The IIR fixes that went into 3.3 were not complete so patch 3 replaces
> them with an explicit way to turn on UART_BUG_THRE (i.e. the "I don't
> trust my iir" flag).
> 

So the first 3 patches should go into 3.4 (and 3.3-stable) kernels,
right?

> A new fix for resetting the fifos on device reset is patch 5.  Alan
> asked to make this a new quirk rather than add more workarounds to the
> core (patch 4).

These can wait for 3.5?

> Patch 6 is an untested RFC / RFT from anyone that has a serial
> suspend/resume use case with an 'init' quirk that has resources that
> need de-allocation at 'exit'.

And I'll hold off on this one entirely for now, right?

greg k-h