From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Michael Reed <mreed10@us.ibm.com>,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8250_pci: Add IBM Saturn serial card
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:26:30 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1255490790.2347.31.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091013194121.49d2d9ae.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 19:41 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:40:53 +1100 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> > The IBM Saturn serial card has only one port. Without that fixup,
> > the kernel thinks it has two, which confuses userland setup and
> > admin tools as well.
> >
>
> That sounds seriousish. I assume it's a long-standing problem, but we
> only just noticed it?
No it's a brand new piece of HW we haven't released yet :-)
> I'll cc -stable because it's so simple ;)
Heh, thanks. We need it into distro indeed.
> > Andrew & Others on CC... not sure who takes care of patches to
> > that driver nowadays. Should I send directly to Linus ?
>
> I'll grab them if I see them, especially simple ones. Sometimes Alan
> grabs them too.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-14 3:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-13 23:40 [PATCH] 8250_pci: Add IBM Saturn serial card Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-14 2:41 ` Andrew Morton
2009-10-14 3:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2009-10-14 11:48 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-14 21:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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