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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	sonic.zhang@analog.com, cooloney@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/18] Blackfin Serial Driver: fix bug - serial port transfer big file from host to target would have more lines
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:38:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090306143810.5ad2c3ad.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1236321780-28718-6-git-send-email-cooloney@kernel.org>

On Fri,  6 Mar 2009 14:42:47 +0800
Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> wrote:

> From: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
> 
> Ignore receiving data if new position is in the same line of
> current buffer tail and small.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>

Changelog fails to describe the bug which is being fixed, and fails to
describe the impact of that bug and fails to explain _why_ this change
is being made.  I presently have no reason to merge this into 2.6.29.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-06 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-06  6:42 [PATCH 00/18] Blackfin Serial Driver bug fixing and update Bryan Wu
2009-03-06  6:42 ` [PATCH 01/18] Blackfin Serial Driver: Add a debug function to serial driver Bryan Wu
2009-03-06 22:37   ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-06  6:42 ` [PATCH 02/18] Blackfin Serial Driver: use barrier instead of cpu_relax for Blackfin SMP like patch Bryan Wu
2009-03-06 22:37   ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-10 10:07     ` gyang
2009-03-10 10:25       ` Mike Frysinger
2009-03-10 16:48         ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-11  9:50           ` graff yang
2009-03-11 16:48             ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-06  6:42 ` [PATCH 03/18] Blackfin Serial Driver: fix a in dma circle rx buffer handling Bryan Wu
2009-03-06 22:38   ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-06  6:42 ` [PATCH 04/18] Blackfin Serial Driver: Change hardware flowcontrol from poll to interrupt driven Bryan Wu
2009-03-06 22:38   ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-06 22:49     ` Mike Frysinger
2009-03-06 23:00       ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-06  6:42 ` [PATCH 05/18] Blackfin Serial Driver: fix bug - serial port transfer big file from host to target would have more lines Bryan Wu
2009-03-06 22:38   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-03-06  6:42 ` [PATCH 06/18] Blackfin Serial Driver: explain why we cannot cpu_relax() in early serial code Bryan Wu
2009-03-06 22:38   ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-06  6:42 ` [PATCH 07/18] Blackfin Serial Driver: BF538/9 Linux kernel Support Bryan Wu
2009-03-06  6:42 ` [PATCH 08/18] Blackfin Serial Driver: use "unsigned long" for flags with irq functions rather than "int" Bryan Wu
2009-03-06  6:42 ` [PATCH 09/18] Blackfin Serial Driver: irq funcs take an unsigned long for flags Bryan Wu
2009-03-06  6:42 ` [PATCH 10/18] Blackfin Serial Driver: fix compile error in PIO mode Bryan Wu
2009-03-06  6:42 ` [PATCH 11/18] Blackfin Serial Driver: update KGDB UART config name Bryan Wu
2009-03-06  6:42 ` [PATCH 12/18] Blackfin Serial Driver: fix building when debug is enabled but serial console is disabled Bryan Wu
2009-03-06  6:42 ` [PATCH 13/18] Blackfin Serial Driver: depend on KGDB_SERIAL_CONSOLE being set to N Bryan Wu
2009-03-06  6:42 ` [PATCH 14/18] Blackfin Serial Driver: use the DLAB macro to hide variant differences Bryan Wu
2009-03-06 22:38   ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-06 22:41     ` Mike Frysinger
2009-03-06  6:42 ` [PATCH 15/18] Blackfin Serial Driver: merge the upstream adeos/xenomai Bryan Wu
2009-03-06 22:38   ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-06 22:43     ` Mike Frysinger
2009-03-06  6:42 ` [PATCH 16/18] Blackfin Serial Driver: fix bug - up arrow key works abnormal for bf561 ezkit board Bryan Wu
2009-03-06  6:42 ` [PATCH 17/18] Blackfin Serial Driver: Fix bug - Enable hardware based CTS and RTS for bf548 Bryan Wu
2009-03-06 22:38   ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-06  6:43 ` [PATCH 18/18] Blackfin Serial Driver: update path to gpio header Bryan Wu

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