From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] TTY: serial, fix locking imbalance Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:36:59 -0700 Message-ID: <20110926233659.GA22611@suse.de> References: <1314818699-10873-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> <20110922224653.GB21296@kroah.com> <4E7CD560.8010706@suse.cz> <20110923190840.GA31009@suse.de> <4E7CDC30.8070607@gmail.com> <20110923220440.GC30017@suse.de> <4E7E187B.4060507@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:45656 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752395Ab1IZXhS (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:37:18 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E7E187B.4060507@gmail.com> Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org To: Jiri Slaby Cc: Jiri Slaby , Greg KH , Nobuhiro Iwamatsu , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Rothwell , Alan Cox On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 07:50:51PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > On 09/24/2011 12:04 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 09:21:20PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > >> But if there are more trees depending on the tree, then OK, I will live > >> with that ;). > > > > For the tty tree, I really doubt it, but I am not sure (rumor has it > > that some people are basing on it, but that might just be rumor.) > > Ok, for the other uart patches I have, it would be convenient for me to > have the possibility of rebase. Would you mind if I add something like > uart-cleanup tree to the -next tree and will have the patches there > until I send them to you? linux-next is for stuff that people are confident will show up in the next release, not for general "let's throw it out there to see if it works" type thing. > Just for the purpose of fine tuning (and rebasing) if something needs to > be fixed in them. The code is so complex, that I'm afraid I omitted some > semi-hidden dependency. And it would be great to fix patches like when I > used to work with the -mm tree. Perhaps you should just work with Andrew and put these in -mm for now until you feel comfortable that it's all worked out and no rebasing would be needed anymore? thanks, greg k-h