From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Hugo Villeneuve <hugo@hugovil.com>
Cc: robh+dt@kernel.org, krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org,
conor+dt@kernel.org, jirislaby@kernel.org, jringle@gridpoint.com,
isaac.true@canonical.com, jesse.sung@canonical.com,
l.perczak@camlintechnologies.com, tomasz.mon@camlingroup.com,
linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org,
"Hugo Villeneuve" <hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com>,
"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>,
"Lech Perczak" <lech.perczak@camlingroup.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 08/10] serial: sc16is7xx: add call to get rs485 DT flags and properties
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2023 15:14:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2023080429-animate-elliptic-3167@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230803103814.ec35dbddad880a77565ff681@hugovil.com>
On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 10:38:14AM -0400, Hugo Villeneuve wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:59:14 +0200
> Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 10:23:40AM -0400, Hugo Villeneuve wrote:
> > > From: Hugo Villeneuve <hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com>
> > >
> > > Add call to uart_get_rs485_mode() to probe for RS485 flags and
> > > properties from device tree.
> >
> > Again, you are saying what you are doing, but not why. I have no hint
> > as to if this is a bugfix, or a new features, or something else?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
>
> Hi Greg,
> I could change the commit message to:
>
> ---------
> serial: sc16is7xx: add missing support for rs485 devicetree properties
>
> Retrieve rs485 devicetree properties on registration of sc16is7xx ports
> in case they are attached to an rs485 transceiver.
> ---------
>
> I don't think that it should be considered as a bug fix, but maybe as a
> missing feature.
>
> And does it mean that it should also go to older (stable) kernels then?
> If yes, then do I need to add the "Fixes" tag?
Does it fix a problem? If so, yes, it should go to older kernels. If
not, then no.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-04 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-25 14:23 [PATCH v9 00/10] serial: sc16is7xx: fix GPIO regression and rs485 improvements Hugo Villeneuve
2023-07-25 14:23 ` [PATCH v9 01/10] serial: sc16is7xx: fix broken port 0 uart init Hugo Villeneuve
2023-07-31 15:52 ` Greg KH
2023-08-01 17:16 ` Hugo Villeneuve
2023-08-03 7:54 ` Greg KH
2023-08-03 13:04 ` Hugo Villeneuve
2023-07-25 14:23 ` [PATCH v9 02/10] serial: sc16is7xx: mark IOCONTROL register as volatile Hugo Villeneuve
2023-07-31 15:50 ` Greg KH
2023-07-31 16:22 ` Hugo Villeneuve
2023-07-25 14:23 ` [PATCH v9 03/10] serial: sc16is7xx: remove obsolete out_thread label Hugo Villeneuve
2023-07-31 15:53 ` Greg KH
2023-08-01 17:29 ` Hugo Villeneuve
2023-08-03 7:55 ` Greg KH
2023-07-25 14:23 ` [PATCH v9 04/10] serial: sc16is7xx: refactor GPIO controller registration Hugo Villeneuve
2023-07-31 15:55 ` Greg KH
2023-08-03 16:14 ` Hugo Villeneuve
2023-08-04 13:14 ` Greg KH
2023-08-04 14:15 ` Hugo Villeneuve
2023-08-04 15:09 ` Greg KH
2023-08-07 14:57 ` Hugo Villeneuve
2023-07-25 14:23 ` [PATCH v9 05/10] dt-bindings: sc16is7xx: Add property to change GPIO function Hugo Villeneuve
2023-07-25 14:23 ` [PATCH v9 06/10] serial: sc16is7xx: fix regression with GPIO configuration Hugo Villeneuve
2023-07-31 15:58 ` Greg KH
2023-08-03 14:18 ` Hugo Villeneuve
2023-08-03 21:04 ` Andy Shevchenko
2023-08-04 4:53 ` Greg KH
2023-07-25 14:23 ` [PATCH v9 07/10] serial: sc16is7xx: fix bug when first setting GPIO direction Hugo Villeneuve
2023-07-25 14:23 ` [PATCH v9 08/10] serial: sc16is7xx: add call to get rs485 DT flags and properties Hugo Villeneuve
2023-07-31 15:59 ` Greg KH
2023-08-03 14:38 ` Hugo Villeneuve
2023-08-04 13:14 ` Greg KH [this message]
2023-07-25 14:23 ` [PATCH v9 09/10] serial: sc16is7xx: add post reset delay Hugo Villeneuve
2023-07-31 15:57 ` Greg KH
2023-07-31 17:00 ` Hugo Villeneuve
2023-07-25 14:23 ` [PATCH v9 10/10] serial: sc16is7xx: improve comments about variants Hugo Villeneuve
2023-07-31 15:56 ` Greg KH
2023-08-03 13:28 ` Hugo Villeneuve
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