From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761140AbZJNCne (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:43:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754200AbZJNCnd (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:43:33 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:60831 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752686AbZJNCnd (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:43:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:41:21 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Russell King , Alan Cox , Michael Reed , stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8250_pci: Add IBM Saturn serial card Message-Id: <20091013194121.49d2d9ae.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1255477253.2347.22.camel@pasglop> References: <1255477253.2347.22.camel@pasglop> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? I'll cc -stable because it's so simple ;) > > 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.