From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760363AbZJND2l (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:28:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754492AbZJND2k (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:28:40 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:56126 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753751AbZJND2j (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:28:39 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8250_pci: Add IBM Saturn serial card From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Andrew Morton Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Russell King , Alan Cox , Michael Reed , stable@kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20091013194121.49d2d9ae.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1255477253.2347.22.camel@pasglop> <20091013194121.49d2d9ae.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:26:30 +1100 Message-Id: <1255490790.2347.31.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 19:41 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:40:53 +1100 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 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.