From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joseph Salisbury Subject: Re: [v3.9] [v3.10] [Regression] serial: 8250_pci: add support for another kind of NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:48:56 -0400 Message-ID: <51D1CF18.80201@canonical.com> References: <51D1AAF5.5050004@canonical.com> <20130701162751.GA18834@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130701162751.GA18834@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Greg KH Cc: udknight@gmail.com, jslaby@suse.cz, alan@linux.intel.com, matts@commtech-fastcom.com, wfp5p@virginia.edu, tklauser@distanz.ch, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, LKML List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org On 07/01/2013 12:27 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 12:14:45PM -0400, Joseph Salisbury wrote: >> Hi Wang, >> >> A bug was opened against the Ubuntu kernel[0]. After a kernel bisect, >> it was found that reverting the following commit resolved this bug: >> >> commit 8d2f8cd424ca0b99001f3ff4f5db87c4e525f366 >> Author: Wang YanQing >> Date: Fri Mar 1 11:47:20 2013 +0800 >> >> serial: 8250_pci: add support for another kind of NetMos Technology >> PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller >> >> >> The regression was introduced as of v3.9-rc3 and still exists in the >> current Mainline tree. It was also propagated to the stable trees. >> >> The patch causes the device to use the serial module instead of >> parport_serial. Maybe the the quirk in ~drivers/pci/quirks.c >> quirk_netmos() needs to be modified? >> >> I see that you are the author of this patch, so I wanted to run this by >> you. I was thinking of requesting a revert, but I wanted to get your >> feedback first. > You missed the conversation we had about this already this weekend :) > > The offending patch has already been reverted and will propagate to the > stable trees soon. > > thanks, > > greg k-h Good news. Thanks for the help, Greg!