[GIT PULL] TTY / Serial driver fix for 6.17-rc1

[GIT PULL] TTY / Serial driver fix for 6.17-rc1

[Greg KH]

The following changes since commit 89748acdf226fd1a8775ff6fa2703f8412b286c8:

  Merge tag 'drm-next-2025-08-01' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/kernel (2025-07-31 21:47:36 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git tags/tty-6.16-rc1-2

for you to fetch changes up to 55a984928bfa30c7877e28f16910e6de1c170f1f:

  Revert "tty: vt: use _IO() to define ioctl numbers" (2025-08-01 10:42:22 +0200)

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TTY revert fix for 6.16-rc1

Here is a single revert of one of the previous patches that went in the
last tty/serial merge that is breaking userspace on some platforms
(specifically powerpc, probably a few others.)  It accidentially changed
the ioctl values of some tty ioctls, which breaks xorg.

The revert has been in linux-next all this week with no reported issues.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Jiri Slaby (SUSE) (1):
      Revert "tty: vt: use _IO() to define ioctl numbers"

 include/uapi/linux/vt.h | 34 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

Re: [GIT PULL] TTY / Serial driver fix for 6.17-rc1

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Aug 09, 2025 at 04:48:50PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> The following changes since commit 89748acdf226fd1a8775ff6fa2703f8412b286c8:
> 
>   Merge tag 'drm-next-2025-08-01' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/kernel (2025-07-31 21:47:36 -0700)
> 
> are available in the Git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git tags/tty-6.16-rc1-2
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 55a984928bfa30c7877e28f16910e6de1c170f1f:
> 
>   Revert "tty: vt: use _IO() to define ioctl numbers" (2025-08-01 10:42:22 +0200)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> TTY revert fix for 6.16-rc1

And, as proof I shouldn't send pull requests a few mere hours after
getting home from a week long vacation, I got the version number wrong
here, it's 6.17-rc1, but the tag and the text all are correct, this
affects your tree now.

So much for being relaxed...

greg k-h

Re: [GIT PULL] TTY / Serial driver fix for 6.17-rc1

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 at 17:57, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> And, as proof I shouldn't send pull requests a few mere hours after
> getting home from a week long vacation, I got the version number wrong
> here, it's 6.17-rc1, but the tag and the text all are correct, this
> affects your tree now.

It's not like I even look at the tag name, so I wouldn't have noticed
if you hadn't mentioned it.

My workflow checks the tag signing for validity, not some kind of
name. Some people just use random dates in the tag names, so the
numbers tend to be meaningless anyway.

So no worries. If the *contents* of the tag have issues, holler.

Or when sending pull requests for the *next* merge window early, then
the subject and tag names might matter, because they might be what
distinguishes a "this is a fix for this release" from "this is what I
want you to pull next week for the merge window".

But even for that case I say "might matter", because most of the time
I go by the contents of the pull request anyway (fixes pulls for the
last week of a release tend to look *completely* different from the
merge window pulls).

            Linus

Re: [GIT PULL] TTY / Serial driver fix for 6.17-rc1

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Aug 09, 2025 at 06:18:50PM +0300, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 at 17:57, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > And, as proof I shouldn't send pull requests a few mere hours after
> > getting home from a week long vacation, I got the version number wrong
> > here, it's 6.17-rc1, but the tag and the text all are correct, this
> > affects your tree now.
> 
> It's not like I even look at the tag name, so I wouldn't have noticed
> if you hadn't mentioned it.

Ah, good to know, now I can put almost anything there :)

Thanks for taking this last minute fix,

greg k-h

Re: [GIT PULL] TTY / Serial driver fix for 6.17-rc1

[pr-tracker-bot]

The pull request you sent on Sat, 9 Aug 2025 16:48:50 +0200:

> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git tags/tty-6.16-rc1-2

has been merged into torvalds/linux.git:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/561c80369df0733ba0574882a1635287b20f9de2

Thank you!

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